Constance Zimmer Quotes
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
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Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?
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I can unite the people of Israel, so I won't speak about controversial issues, which divide the people.
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When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.
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Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
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Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book – you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention.
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It wasn't such a pleasant experience. We went through 14 hours with contractions every two minutes, no epidural, no nothing. Every two minutes, I would pass out. I went to the hospital on Saturday, and Levi was born on Monday.
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That job should not be a political job. We should not be hearing very publicly from the leader of the FBI.
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Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell you about the character's origin or back story.
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No matter how much wealth anybody has, family problems are about the same across the board.
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My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister's, not like my son's - a high soprano voice, but like a bird. I mean, really beautiful.
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On 'Undeclared,' I was actually the only person who had gone to college. Here we are doing this college show, and no one had actually really been, and it was so bizarre to me.
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
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Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.
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You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say that.
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I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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I'm a big fan of money. I like it, I use it, I have a little. I keep it in a jar on top of my refrigerator. I'd like to put more in that jar. That's where you come in.
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Being from Boston, I think we have to get the 'Good Will Hunting' poster tattooed on our backs when we're like 16 or 17; it's just a rite of passage. That movie is so, so, so huge.
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Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus that animated the designs most emblematic of the Modern Movement.
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I never sweat about work. I just assume work's coming.
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I'm obsessed with lip stuff. I have to have stuff on my lips at all times.
