Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them... but not us.
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All men would be tyrants if they could.
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I've been a fortunate girl: I grew up in a family that loved me from day one. I feel well grounded and lucky from that. So everything else is a bonus, because I grew up in this family that I adored, and adored me, and I think when you have that, you are already ahead of the game in the sense of how you feel about yourself.
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Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
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I have both joyful and heartbreaking moments in life, even now. Stardom doesn't give us everything.
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Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories.
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Just about the entirety of the first album, 'Brown Sugar,' I wrote it, the majority of that record in my bedroom in Richmond. And all of the demos for it were done on a four-track in my bedroom. I think EMI was a little leery of me being in the studio producing it on my own, which is what I was fighting for.
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I worked with a couple of chocolate Labradors, which were a lot of fun. Very excitable. They're cute.
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I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.
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My fans were probably the most therapeutic thing for me.
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I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respected by people I respect. And I wanted to be rich. It's best to get rich, then you can do what you want.
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Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.
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In my business, you should be very strong in mind. You have to be sure about yourself and about your work and your career, and you have to be strong inside because so many people come around and try to say bad things about you.
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Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.
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If I could, I would have my son on tour the whole time. But he has school, summer camp, and he has to see his mother.
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The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet.
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It's a funny thing when you know someone and you meet their siblings - you get so much a sense of who they are because when you can recognize similar traits in the family, you understand exactly why they are the way they are.
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Why do I run? It's the best form of exercise. It's totally the core of being in shape. I really feel so good - anytime after the first mile. You start fantasying. You start thinking about things.
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I love working in America!
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America's best teachers are always looking for new ways to bring learning to life.
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I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years.
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And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
