Jonathan Franzen Quotes
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
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I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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In space, you need to exercise your heart since it's not pumping blood around at the same rate.
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I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.
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Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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Fabo is a real rock star, but people look over it, so I'll try to bring it to the light if I can.
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It's really crazy to be 36 years old and to have been doing something for 25 years.
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I don't plan my roles or my films.
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Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.
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It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.
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Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job.
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.
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I hate dealing with the press. But I think it is a necessary evil.
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I hate Whole Foods.
