Jojo Moyes Quotes
I always say that in any roomful of people, I could hive a novel out of any one person's family or life story.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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People used to say I'm weak in comedy. But, with 'Mahesh Khaelja' and 'Dookudu,' I have proved that I am good at comedy.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
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Anxiety is a useful tool: it forces us to make plans. But when too much anxiety freezes us into indecision, it needs checking.
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I would never be able to spend all my life in a busy city like Mumbai.
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If you want more diversity in the industry, you need diverse people writing scripts and developing them.
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Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
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I always say that in any roomful of people, I could hive a novel out of any one person's family or life story.
