Zoe Lister-Jones Quotes
I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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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 think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.
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During the 1990s, luxury became something exclusive and elitist. I think fashion got lost. It forgot about craft and culture.
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
