J. A. Jance Quotes

Beyond a certain point, that was all a mother could do for her children - Hang around long enough to drive them crazy.

J. A. Jance

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• My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
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  • Women
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• I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Good
  • Me
  • Certain

• We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
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• I have an issue with rage. I'm going to work that out, long term.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • Work
  • Long
  • Rage

• I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.

  

  Kamisese Mara
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• Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.

  

  Carl Lewis
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  • Impossible

• We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

  

  Sam Brownback
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  • Children
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• A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
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  • Society
  • Smiling

• When I finally finished the 'Two Suns' tour, which went on for quite a long time, I felt like a bit of a husk. And I remember thinking, 'I need to spend some time in one place, and just be at home.' So I guess the first year of that three and a half years was spent just trying to kind of get back to normal again.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Mean
  • Point
  • Move

• What drew me to the character is that Roberto Duran is the son of an American soldier - a Marine - stationed in Panama and a humble Panamanian mother, and he was abandoned.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
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• Paint goes a long way in making old look like new.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Long
  • Look
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• I simplify the spices. I'm the same way as everybody else: if I look at a recipe and there's ten spices in it, I'm going to have to think long and hard about when I'm going to be able to make that... so I try to simplify the spices to three or four.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
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• She was obsessed with French and Swedish cinema. I also remember our mother showing us 'Gone With the Wind' very early on. She absolutely loved Vivien Leigh, so it must have been a formative experience for me, thinking, 'Oh, maybe one day I'll be like Vivien Leigh.'

  

  Felicity Jones
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• In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

  

  Harpo Marx
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• Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.

  

  Irving Kirsch
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  • Therapy

• I think people overplay the 'Saturday Night Live' schedule. I mean, yeah, it can be some late hours. But the late hours are usually only one or two nights out of the week. You might have a crazy six-day week, but you'll work three weeks, and then you get a week off work. I'd take most jobs if it was hard work and then I got a week off.

  

  Hannibal Buress
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• I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
  • Long
  • True

• Am I to understand,' said Reepicheep to Lucy after a long stare at Eustace, 'That this singularly discourteous person is under your Majesty's protection? Because, if not--

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• And I don't want you thinking that my girlfriend is a bad person. She is an amazing woman, the fact that I only have seven stories about her in eight years, says a lot. You know, don't get me wrong, five of them happened this year, but that's still way below the bar, you know what I am saying.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Thinking
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• Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact with great qualities of life.

  

  Jose Manuel Barroso
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Positive
  • Yourself

• Whenever things are good, I always worry about what could go wrong.

  

  James Altucher
  • Good
  • Worry

• Beyond a certain point, that was all a mother could do for her children - Hang around long enough to drive them crazy.

  

  J. A. Jance
  • Long
  • Children
  • Mother