Jodi Picoult Quotes
Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
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Internal security implies also an external dimension, a defence capacity.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.
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I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.
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The other day, someone called me this generation's Bruce Dern - I'd never thought of that, and frankly, I don't know enough of Bruce Dern's work to comment on it, though he is an incredible actor.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
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It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.
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I think there's a mystery to drawing - to the weight of the lines. The sweep of a line around a corner to create an effect that someone is moving.
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To punish is the most difficult thing there is. A society such as ours needs to question every aspect of punishment as it is practiced everywhere: in the army, the schools, the factories.
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Everything becomes magnified at night. Sounds travel in a different way, it's dark, and everything seems far more spooky.
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Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.
