Jennifer Gilmore Quotes

My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my way into my story and my characters through research.

Jennifer Gilmore

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PastMeResearchStoryFindWay

In New York, especially, so much of your life is spent on the streets. You don't always want to be driving around in an SUV with a security guard. You want to be able to walk to a restaurant; you want to go and do things.

Megan Fox

LifeWalkNew YorkRestaurantYou

When pop culture can influence things in any way, when a song becomes something bigger than just a song, that's the greatest thing to me.

Max Martin

CultureMeInfluenceSongWay

As public schools deteriorate, the upper-middle class and wealthy send their kids to private ones. As public pools and playgrounds decay, the better-off buy memberships in private tennis and swimming clubs. As public hospitals decline, the well-off pay premium rates for private care.

Robert Reich

SwimmingCareClassTennisPayBuy

Every time you do something, make something, it's final in a way, but it's not. It immediately raises a great set of questions. And if you become a question addict, which I am, you immediately have something you need to pursue.

Robert Irwin

GreatTimeI AmQuestionsYouWay

I guess you can be a supermodel today just by building followers. You don't necessarily have to do the work of going to Milan and then to Paris or New York, trying to find the right photographer, artist, or designer to see you.

Amber Valletta

WorkTodayNew YorkBuildingYou

Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.

Stuart Rose

FailureBusinessHateHappyPeople

There's a lot of material from my life in my books, but they're not really autobiographical, in the sense that they're not about my life. So, in 'A Feather on the Breath of God' I write about my parents, I write about this Russian immigrant, I write about the world of dance, but it isn't an autobiography; so much is left out.

Sigrid Nunez

LifeGodDanceParentsWorldWrite

When you play for United, you have to perform every week.

Romelu Lukaku

WeekYouPlayUnitedEveryPerform

In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private.

Monica Bellucci

ProcessActingDifficultExplain

It's a weird feeling to have outlived virtually everyone you ever worked with.

Douglas Slocombe

WeirdYouFeelingEveryoneEver

I'm very hard on myself because I know how good my body can look. Dorie has taught me to use less weight and more repetition so I don't become too muscular.

Donna Dixon

GoodMyselfMeBodyLookRepetition

Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without.

Anne Lamott

LifeLivePeopleLossYouLose

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