Lauren Willig Quotes
When I'm in heavy-duty writing mode, there's something great about reading a series. Soothing, but not distracting too much.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I think I'm a bit odd.
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People are getting careers from YouTube and uploading videos. And they're totally different - you can't necessarily be funny on a video, and then all of a sudden you're live in a theater. You don't have the tools yet. It's a lot more involved to go from being funny on a little iPhone screen to being live in front of people and being funny.
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When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
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I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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It's so easy to look foolish online.
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Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.
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Austin Pettis can make plays.
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You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever... I'm not worried about it.
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It's hard not to go back and look at my songwriting catalog and go, 'Look, there are 600 to 700 songs here.'
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Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.
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When I'm in heavy-duty writing mode, there's something great about reading a series. Soothing, but not distracting too much.
