Pam Jenoff Quotes
You love the people they were before, before all the awfulness that made them do this thing.
Quotes to Explore
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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One moment cannot be the most important.
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If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have a makeup artist because they know what they're doing.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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We all have the archetype inside us of the enlightened being.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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Our lives are in God's hands. We have no control. We can't control Him by using the Bible or cross as a good luck charm without a thorough reformation of heart and life.
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Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.
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Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
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You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he ran on, the budget deficit, was in and out of the race a couple of times, and still got 20 million votes, didn't have the Internet.
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Just as we rely on Israel as a continual source of inspiration and renewal, Israel relies on us.
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I love cooking. I love having friends around.
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If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.
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You love the people they were before, before all the awfulness that made them do this thing.
