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Jen Lancaster Quotes
Jen Lancaster Quotes
Jen Lancaster
American
Author
Born:
Nov 5
,
1967
Always
Life
Me
People
Think
You
Related authors:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
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Mark Twain
Og Mandino
Zig Ziglar
I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian.
Jen Lancaster
Food
Half
Italian Food
Able
Because
Always
Been
Italian
Blood
Cook
Sicilian
I'm not thin, but I'm strong - plus my balance is such that I can navigate a flight of stairs with a basket of laundry and a stack of Pottery Barn catalogs, vaulting over cat-and-dog hurdles, never once spilling my coffee.
Jen Lancaster
Balance
Strong
Coffee
Hurdles
Once
Laundry
Spilling
Plus
Pottery
Never
Catalogs
Over
Stack
Stairs
Barn
Flight
Navigate
Thin
Basket
Everyone who reads me is someone I'd like to hang out with.
Jen Lancaster
Me
Everyone
Out
Someone
Like
Reads
Hang
Who
I'm very detail oriented. I think that's why people enjoy my memoirs - because I tend to remember everything.
Jen Lancaster
People
Remember
Enjoy
Think
Everything
Detail
Memoirs
Tend
Because
Very
Oriented
Why
In real life, I tend to yell at people a lot. Not because I'm bossy or mean, but because I'm frustrated.
Jen Lancaster
Life
People
Real Life
Bossy
Tend
Because
Real
Yell
Lot
Frustrated
Mean
I never ever, ever say anything against my husband to anyone except my husband. Everyone gets in fights, and I think the natural propensity for women is, 'Oh I want to talk to someone.' But the minute you take what bothers you outside the bond between you and your husband, you let someone else into the relationship and that causes a wedge.
Jen Lancaster
Relationship
You
Women
Natural
Husband
Think
Else
Everyone
Say
Minute
Someone
Propensity
Wedge
Except
Bothers
Take
Outside
Never
Between
Talk
Causes
Gets
Oh
Want
Anyone
Anything
Against
Your
Fights
Ever
Bond
Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.
Jen Lancaster
Character
Writing
Political
Way
Voice
Powerful
Powerful Way
Opinion
Establish
Fiction
Expressing
I'm a humor writer, so I don't always present myself in the best light.
Jen Lancaster
Best
Myself
Light
Humor
Writer
Always
Present
When you think about a drill sergeant, a drill sergeant expects you to perform your best, and if you don't, they're going to stay on you until you do.
Jen Lancaster
Best
You
Think
Stay
About
Drill
Perform
Until
Expects
Going
Your
Sergeant
Here's a bit of Discovery Channel for you - apples don't last forever. They can stay fresh for a long time, especially when refrigerated, but definitely not from December into the month of March.
Jen Lancaster
Time
You
Long
Long Time
Channel
Month
Bit
Definitely
Stay
Fresh
Discovery
Forever
December
March
Apples
Here
Last
I learned to speak Italian, somewhat. Definitely enough to get around in Italy. My grandfather always used to swear at my grandmother in Italian.
Jen Lancaster
Speak
Enough
Definitely
Somewhat
Learned
Around
Always
Italian
Italy
Get
Swear
Grandfather
Grandmother
Used
Just as I got older, I think I've become more and more conservative.
Jen Lancaster
Conservative
Become
Older
Think
More
More And More
Got
Just
Now with social media, people essentially come into my living room, my virtual living room, and tell me everything that is wrong with me.
Jen Lancaster
Me
People
Social Media
Living
Virtual
Everything
Tell
Wrong
Come
Essentially
Social
Room
Media
Media People
Now
Living Room
I guess my most prized pop culture possession is a signed first edition of the book 'Fight Club' by Chuck Palahniuk.
Jen Lancaster
Fight
Culture
Book
First
Club
Guess
Chuck
Possession
Signed
Most
Edition
Prized
Pop
Fight Club
Pop Culture
Humor's an excellent way to make a point more palatable and/or relatable.
Jen Lancaster
Humor
Way
More
Excellent
Point
Make
You know how it's almost impossible for kids to not say what they think? That's me. I have to make the conscious effort to be situationally appropriate.
Jen Lancaster
Me
You
Impossible
Think
Appropriate
Say
Kids
Almost
Know
Make
How
Effort
Conscious
Conscious Effort
If I were to run for president, then people would debate the pros and cons of what's wrong with me in increasingly aggressive 140 character tweets and Facebook status updates, and, inevitably, everyone would end up fighting.
Jen Lancaster
Character
Me
Facebook
People
Debate
Aggressive
Fighting
Increasingly
President
Everyone
Run
Status
Would
Pros
Wrong
Inevitably
Were
End
Up
Then
Tweets
Cons
I believe that I have such a vanilla life. But maybe I come with a different perspective. I'm always trying to improve myself.
Jen Lancaster
Life
Myself
Perspective
Believe
Vanilla
Come
Always
Improve
Trying
Maybe
Different
Different Perspective
Asking me to choose between a traditional book and a Kindle is like asking me which of my dogs I love most.
Jen Lancaster
Love
Me
Book
Kindle
Between
Like
Most
Dogs
Traditional
Which
Asking
Choose
I am going to embarrass myself. I have accepted that fact, and that's just how it's going to be.
Jen Lancaster
Myself
Embarrass
Fact
Accepted
How
Am
Going
Just
I began writing fiction when I started running out of material in my own life.
Jen Lancaster
Life
Writing
Own
Out
Running
My Own
Material
Began
Fiction
Started
We all know exactly what we love, and woe is you if you're on the other side.
Jen Lancaster
Love
You
Other
Side
Exactly
Exactly What
Know
Woe
When it comes to matters of pro sports, politics or palate, disparate sides claim their party, team and cola to be superior.
Jen Lancaster
Politics
Sports
Superior
Party
Matters
Sides
Claim
Pro
Team
Disparate
Palate
No one wants to friend or follow covert info about Pakistan's nuclear policy.
Jen Lancaster
Follow
About
No-One
Policy
Covert
Friend
Wants
Pakistan
Nuclear
Beauty pageants, you're only judged once. Sorority rush, you have to go through 20 parties.
Jen Lancaster
You
Beauty
Once
Rush
Only
Through
Parties
Judged
Go
My friend created an iPhone app that locates Vienna Beef products across the country. Personally, I came hardwired with an internal GPS that instinctively points me toward coffee shops, cupcake stores and the perfect Chicago-style dog, so I find this technology redundant.
Jen Lancaster
Me
Technology
Dog
Coffee
Country
Find
My Friend
Perfect
Points
Toward
Instinctively
Redundant
Came
Beef
iPhone
Friend
Shops
Stores
Personally
Created
Vienna
Across
App
Products
Internal
Coffee Shops
Hardwired
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