Sadie Jones Quotes
I love writing on trains. The joy of being a writer is it's all in your head; you don't need materials apart from the laptop. It's like taking your work home with you, so you can feel grounded in your own insane writerly realities wherever you are.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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I could live naked... I love it.
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I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.
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I love vintage cowboy boots, and some days I'm into platform stilettos encrusted in jewels. It's really all over the place.
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To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I think that you can love people without it being the great love.
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It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.
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Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
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Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.
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I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.
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The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic.
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Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you.
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I love De la Renta. I love CoSTUME National; I think they're just incredible. And I love Marc Jacobs, too - they're also great, just a great brand.
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Best Buy went and hired a lot of Shanghai staff, but went and westernised them. They only work eight hours a day!
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I was seeing everything through pain. I would roll out of bed and do my exercises. I had to do that to work out the remainder of the pain pills. I would drink coffee and go to the set and plunge myself so far into my work.
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Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true.
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The world has changed. It's not enough to simply buy American; we have to sell American, sell our products and goods and services throughout this world.
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This is the point in the show where we say, 'Oh, what else do we have in the van that's flammable?'
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I love writing on trains. The joy of being a writer is it's all in your head; you don't need materials apart from the laptop. It's like taking your work home with you, so you can feel grounded in your own insane writerly realities wherever you are.
