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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.
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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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that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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Writing is agony. I hate it.
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I tend to push whatever is looking over my shoulder away when I am writing. It's once the box of books arrive that I say I'm going to be pilloried for this or that. But then you realize it's done, and there is nothing I can do. I'm proud of the book.
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In my living room, I was always playing guitar and writing songs and singing them. My dad and I would always sing together - only for friends and family, but always since I was a little girl.
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My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people.
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Moses is our true founding father.
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I just want to redeem myself and show the world that... it wasn't a fluke that I won at nationals. I can compete on the international stage as well.
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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.
