Jonathan Franzen Quotes
's one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling.
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I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.
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There have been interviews with people saying they are jealous of Kangana. There are so many people who are jealous of my success.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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Success must never be measured by how much money you have.
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A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.
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I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl power femme fatale thing. It's fun, and it's unapologetic, and they tell women they can do whatever they want, and that's true, and that's a message that I want to carry, to tell girls they can do whatever they want.
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I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.
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I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.
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I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.
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I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.
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The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.
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Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
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From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting published and continue to write what I wanted to without compromising.
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I'm not always happy, I promise. I can be serious.
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I've always thought it's the qualities of a person that matter. Not their breed, their shape, their color, their sexual preference, age... It's the qualities of their character.
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I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take. They are inevitably looking for a happy ending.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
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's one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling.
