Jodi Picoult Quotes
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We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
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The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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Elves are cool, man.
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I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.
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I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.
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If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.
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The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.
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Banning paper and plastic and making shoppers carry their groceries home in their mouths like dogs is just the thing to make a little tin humanist in the Obama West Wing think he's admiral of the Uzbek Navy.
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Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.
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It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.
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Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future.
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.
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I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy?
