Jodi Picoult Quotes
It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Democracy is not about one party dominating.
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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I've just always been a bit of a dork.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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If you have decisions taken from time to time at the level of the executives, which gives the impression of being discriminatory, if you are not open when government is functioning, then obviously people will make allegations.
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I always say to my agents, you go through one of these big kind of movies, everyone makes money, but like, I said, 'I'm the one who's gotta go make it, and if I don't have my heart in it, and it's like a love affair, I'm not going to do a good job. Then, and I don't want to just get paid. I just, I don't want to do that.'
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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I'm understated in my approach.
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I was always such a skinny kid, so I kind of grew up with an 'I hate skinny' mentality.
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I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - but I had to learn how to write in a different way to write sequential art for a graphic novel. It's been an interesting transition.
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Ultimately, the goal is to use acquisitions to compress time on product development and get people on the team, especially in senior roles, who can help build out areas of the company they have experience in.
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The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.
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Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times; and which have much veneration, but no rest.
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It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.
