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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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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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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The more that I can work in different mediums, the more I can grow, and learn from different actors and different types of actors and directors and different styles of acting and build a tool box.
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When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart. It changes your life. And that's what happened to me.
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I exercise five days a week at home.
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I live for my daughter. Every decision I make is about her and for her. It's great. She's perfect.
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Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
