Jenny Offill Quotes

I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my own personality.

Jenny Offill

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There's no political point worth my son's life.

Joe Biden

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There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.

Jenny Lewis

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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.

John Maynard Keynes

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No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

Robert Peel

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When people ask what I'd like to do next, the answer is usually, 'Something with people in rooms.'

Anna Popplewell

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Competition is normal at a big club, but I've never been worried about it.

Stephan El Shaarawy

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With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; it is what it is. It's an adventure film.

Steven Strait

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When I act, I try to understand the character, why she's behaving like that.

Sibel Kekilli

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My screen name in fourth grade on AIM was 'chickmagnet4life,' so it started in fourth grade... and that's '4 life.'

Rob Gronkowski

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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.

William J. Clinton

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