Jodi Picoult Quotes
I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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I like the idea of sending my Aquazurra girls out with a lucky charm under their feet.
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
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If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.
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Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever!
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category.
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What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco - give some time to the tech community.
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.
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The march of the human mind is slow.
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Don't be too close-minded, and don't think there's only one way to get to where you want to be. There are a thousand ways to get there, and if one way doesn't work, try the other.
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So much of my own life inspires what I write. Whether it's work, family, friends, motherhood, I am a writer who tends to write what she knows. In 'Revenge Wears Prada,' a great deal of my own life finds its way into the book.
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Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.
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I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.
