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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I started coming into my own at 30, discovering what's important to me, not caring what other people think.
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Although professionals are able to extract a considerable amount of wealth from amateurs, few stock pickers, if any, have the skill needed to beat the market consistently, year after year.
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We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.
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In the early 1980s, I spent a year working as an assistant at the Elaine Markson Literary Agency.
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I think there's a lot of people who right now are worried that people are going down frivolous paths, like inventing new social networks or new games, instead of inventing the cures for cancer or fundamental technologies that will change the world.
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I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
