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 just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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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 majored in political science and English, but starting from the age of 17, I've paid for everything that I've had in my life. It was a personal choice. My parents would have helped me in any way whatsoever, but for me, you know what? I can make my own way.
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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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It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
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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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For my 50th birthday, I got ahold of a new print of 'Saturday Night Fever.' I see it much more as a tough coming-of-age movie than as a disco story.
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Man in the electronic age has no possible environment except the globe and no possible occupation except information-gathering.
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But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying 'no' to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.
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I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.
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To think about "oblivion" is to think about "what art is".
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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.
