Jilly Cooper Quotes
I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.
Jilly Cooper
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
Garrett Dillahunt
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It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
Rachel Johnson
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
Karin Slaughter
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
Ian Anderson
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
Jack Nicholson
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I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
Victoria Osteen
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I appreciate a slight yield, lightness of weight, some motion if possible, because in moving about, the human body determines... the comfort and the measurements of its environment... the human measure is still the strongest factor. But coming back to the chair, there are certain motions we go through - we like to lean back, like to toss things - and if the chair's adaptable it responds and it's almost like wearing a comfortable coat; you really don't know you have it on.
Harry Bertoia
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If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or outhouses in Philadelphia or kids losing their toes because they were living in homes without heat. He took on a battle in 'The Battle with the Slums' - and we won.
Matthew Desmond
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Everyone thinks that just because you have a Scouse accent, then you must be 'on the rob'.
Jennifer Ellison
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Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.
A. J. Muste
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I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.
Jilly Cooper