Jodi Picoult Quotes
When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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We believe that when you make Black America better - you make all of America better.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.
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Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.
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I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
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The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.
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Do I believe in coupling? Do I believe in commitment? Do I believe in co-parenting, raising children together, having a family, and growing old with someone? I absolutely believe in all of those things. I just don't believe that you need to be married to do that. I love going to weddings, though. I do love a good wedding.
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I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.
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I just have the normal ringtone, unfortunately.
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I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama.
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My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.
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Running opened up something beautiful in my life. I try to send the energy all over my body. I love the feeling of it.
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I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.
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The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
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Indian-styled garments are very popular in the U.S., especially in areas near the beach, like Hawaii and Los Angeles.
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I'm not in the slightest wanting to attack the women's movement here. But I think that in popular, broadly left-wing, broadly feminist discourse, there is a tendency to just label discrimination against women - and embedded assumptions about them - as misogyny and think 'job done.'
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For all the challenges I've faced in my path to self-acceptance, I've also traveled it with my own set of luck and privilege.
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When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.
