Fay Weldon Quotes
I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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No matter where I travel, I make sure to carry a Vaseline body lotion with me to keep my skin well moisturised all the time.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
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There are too many 50-year-olds dressing as 20-year-olds.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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Cyder was anciently the main drink of the country people in the West of England.
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I'm lucky because I remember my dad showing me 'Independence Day,' and I loved it.
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I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.
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When I was young, I had an 'aha' moment in church. There was a thing called testimony service, and somebody would sing a song, and everyone else would join in, finding a note where they fit. During one of those, a light went on in my head. In that moment, I heard everything - Parliament, the Staple Singers, Curtis Mayfield, Prince - in there.
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We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.
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I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.
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The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.
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If you don't toot your own horn, it goeth untooted.
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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
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Sometimes people have a wild past because they have an essentially wild nature, and that's how they plan to go through life. Sometimes such people settle into happy monogamy, and can be content there because they never have to wonder, "What did I miss?"
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I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?
