Jojo Moyes Quotes
Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country.
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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What I do is I do my job.
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If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!
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Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did.
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I'm a horrible golfer.
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He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.
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That was a major goal for me - to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be. People get very trapped where they are.
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As an entrepreneur and mother, I support the need to put women at the center, recognizing their crucial impact on social development and their important role of balancing family and professional responsibilities.
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.
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We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.
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Refugees come to us seeking asylum, seeking freedom, justice and dignity - seeking a chance just to breathe. And people in our country are saying close the doors and don't let them in?
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In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy.
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May never glorious sun reflex his beams Upon the country where you make abode! But darkness and the gloomy shade of death Environ you till mischief and despair Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves.
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Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country.
