Jen Selinsky Quotes
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In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.
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I remember 'Def Comedy Jam' being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, 'I want to do that.'
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What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.
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I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.
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Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.
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The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
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Bring ice, thanks, Agnes
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I don't listen to a ton of rock music.
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Should one of your employees have a physical or mental health problem, I would argue that it is as much something for the employer as the individual to contend with.
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I was a very wanting child.
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We are all winners here.
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Clearly, you can't believe everything you read in the press.
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Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you.
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Most importantly, I want my kids to be happy. You're only as happy as your saddest kid.
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All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.
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I definitely have been approached and reached out to by a lot of young Asian American and Asian women, which has been really cool for me.
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I think I should be objective, call 'em as I see 'em. Stay the Tooz.
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I think that life is just too sweet to be bitter.
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For what are we but our past? If that is lost, we become nothing.
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There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.
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I rolled the second car that I ever owned, a Toyota 4 Runner. This was winter in Colorado, two weeks before the 2002 Olympic trials. I was driving in the outside lane, and my rear tire caught some black ice, and we totally turned sideways to the point where we were heading right toward the median.
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Round a turn of the Qin Fortress winds the Wei River, And Yellow Mountain foot-hills enclose the Court of China; Past the South Gate willows comes the Car of Many Bells On the upper Palace-Garden Road-a solid length of blossom; A Forbidden City roof holds two phoenixes in cloud; The foliage of spring shelters multitudes from rain; And now, when the heavens are propitious for action, Here is our Emperor ready-no wasteful wanderer.
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I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on.
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The promise of spring’s arrival is enough to get anyone through the bitter winter!
