Jodi Picoult Quotes
Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
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To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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I don't think that attorneys should be in any way running for governor.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.
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I'm always asking friends what new music they're into, and I love showing people new talented artists.
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Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.
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Since I had cancer I've realised that every day is a bonus.
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Conditions are ripe for triumph. We will win. And we will wield great power here.
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Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.
