Jonathan Franzen Quotes
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I don't miss acting at all.
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I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my friend, you're my wife, you're my girlfriend, you're my co-worker. This is your box, and you're not allowed to stray outside of it.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
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I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.
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I love doing every role I do!
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Someone made me a Leaf Coneybear finger puppet. Someone made me a portrait of me on some chocolate. I'm keeping it. I daren't eat such a work of art. It's so unique and so fun that fans do that. It's incredibly flattering. I like it when people spend time on me. People don't spend the same amount of time on my brother who's an insurance broker.
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You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.
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I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is often writing about the same sort of themes, but taking different angles on them.
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Language usage always has a political context.
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Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes.
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Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
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Objects are made to be completed by the human mind.
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The same was true of the most popular girls. They had no empathy, no compassion for more normal kids.
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You have to think like a designer. You have to establish the trend four seasons before it becomes popular.
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I'm not really tough.
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But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny.
