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 didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
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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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When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset.
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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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You can do something that walks a line, and invariably, whatever that line is, it will be crossed by people who don't know any better and want to ape the success.
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There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.
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Despair the twin-born of devotion.
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A lot of people think the best work I've done was nonfiction - the 'Brothers and Keepers' book. But I think of myself as a fiction writer. And I think, if my work is put in perspective, all the books would be a continual questioning of what's true and what's not true, what's documented and what's not documented.
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I suddenly find out that I'm 60, and I get shocked by the number, because I feel like I'm 20.
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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.
