Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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2006 is all about getting your house in order and I mean that metaphorically.
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I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.
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A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
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The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!
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People who can dance and sing are often very good at comedy.
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
