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I read the 'Harry Potter' books as I was writing my own books, and I love them, but I don't think Harry was very much like I was as a kid. He's always brave, and he's perfect in a lot of ways.
Jeff Kinney
Love
Writing
Own
Think
Books
Harry
Harry Potter
Kid
Ways
My Own
Perfect
Potter
He
Like
Read
Always
Lot
Very
Brave
Them
Much
Sometimes, if you have a lot of history with a character and a lot of affection, it's hard for you to do anything with that character. Like with Swamp Thing, for instance, I revere the Alan Moore run so much that it would be hard for me to do my own Swamp Thing. I care too much about the way it was done before.
Jeff Lemire
Character
Me
History
You
Sometimes
Care
Too Much
Affection
Before
Own
Too
Way
Run
Moore
Would
Would-Be
About
My Own
Instance
Like
Revere
Lot
Done
Anything
Swamp
Much
Hard
Alan
Thing
My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.
Jeff Probst
Creative
First
Own
Control
Destiny
Possible
Direct
My Own
Write
Stuff
Still
Goal
Whenever
My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. I've learned that the more I collaborate, like by having someone do a soundtrack to one of my books, the more I see my own work differently.
Jeff Vandermeer
Work
Art
Strong
Mother
Own
Sense
Collaborate
Books
Visual
See
Someone
My Own
Having
More
Almost
Like
Learned
Always
Soundtrack
Cover
Artist
Choose
Differently
Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.
Jeffery Deaver
Life
Own
Relationships
Draw
All Writers
My Own
Tend
Writers
Day-To-Day
Day-To-Day Life
Course
Personal
Personal Experiences
Human
Experiences
Stories
Separate
Human Relationships
Describing
Keep
Largely
Each time I turn on my own television screen and see reflections of myself in other courageous young LGBTQ-identifying actors and artists, I know that the dream is expanding. That would not be possible without LGBTQ Pride. Celebrate yourself, and the world will catch up.
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
Time
Myself
Celebrate
Yourself
World
Pride
Will
Own
Young
Other
On-Screen
Television
Possible
Dream
Would
See
My Own
Catch
Know
Courageous
Without
Up
Expanding
Reflections
Artists
Screen
Turn
Turn-On
Each
Actor
Each Time
I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.
Jeffrey Eugenides
Work
Me
You
Old
Own
Honors
Way
Would
Some
My Own
Various
Take
Had
Studied
Toward
Force
Read
Courses
Did
Modern
Middle
Literature
Which
Centuries
Might
Means
Your
Figured
English
English Literature
Things
Start
Program
It's in my own interest - it's in everybody's interest - to have streets that are safe, children that are educated, and drug use that's diminished, crimes that are not affecting us.
Jeffrey Skoll
Own
Everybody
Crimes
Diminished
My Own
Safe
Educated
Affecting
Children
Interest
Us
Use
Streets
That's just me and my own body issues - I think I'm fat and bald and old and ugly.
Jeffrey Tambor
Me
Ugly
Old
Own
Think
My Own
Bald
Issues
Just
Body
Fat
There are a lot of things I might be good at, such as competitive figure skating, window washing from ten stories up, and being an open heart surgeon. I might also make an excellent Kamikaze pilot - except for the fact that I don't want to learn how to fly and have no interest in taking my own life on behalf of Japan.
Jen Kirkman
Life
Good
Heart
Surgeon
Pilot
Fly
Own
Window
No Interest
Ten
My Own
Fact
Excellent
Except
Open
Taking
Also
Make
Learn
How
Lot
Up
Behalf
Being
Want
Stories
Interest
Skating
Japan
Might
Figure
Figure Skating
Washing
Things
Competitive
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
This is part of what makes me, ahem, an excellent houseguest: I'm game. I'm flexible. I'll make you feel okay about eating an entire chocolate cake in one sitting because I'm right there by your side with my own fork.
Jen Sincero
Me
You
Game
Cake
Own
Side
Okay
Eating
Entire
About
My Own
Excellent
Part
Feel
Make
Because
Makes
Sitting
Fork
Chocolate
Chocolate Cake
Your
Flexible
Right
The video-sharing app Vine was the first place I got a glimpse of cultures beyond my own, including those of the Middle East. I was able to see how some women there wanted us to see them: prospering, aware.
Jenna Wortham
Women
First
Own
Those
East
See
Able
Some
My Own
Glimpse
Prospering
Beyond
First Place
Got
How
Cultures
Middle
Wanted
Middle East
Place
Them
Us
App
Including
Aware
Vine
When I was a kid, I dreamed of using a bat with my own name on it.
Jennie Finch
Own
Bat
Kid
Dreamed
My Own
Name
Using
When I turned 30, due to my father's heart history and my family genetics, I vowed to start seeing a cardiologist every year and just really be proactive and take my own heart health into my own hands.
Jennie Garth
Health
Family
History
Heart
Father
Year
Own
Every
Seeing
My Own
Take
Genetics
Vowed
Due
Hands
Proactive
Just
Turned
Really
Start
My mom really instilled in me that I'm beautiful and I can do anything, and I echo that now with my own girls.
Jennie Garth
Beautiful
Mom
Me
Girl
Own
Echo
My Own
Instilled
Anything
Really
Now
I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.
Jennifer Aniston
God
Religion
Own
Believe
Interpretation
My Own
Supernatural
Like
Know
Looks
I was starting to buy into my own sort of stereotype in a way.
Jennifer Aniston
Buy
Own
Way
My Own
Stereotype
Sort
Starting
I've always loved to combine different scents to come up with my own unique thing.
Jennifer Aniston
Own
My Own
Combine
Come
Always
Up
Different
Loved
Unique
Thing
At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I'm trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I'm trying to tackle. We'll just sort of see.
Jennifer Carpenter
Entertainment
Business
Age
Own
Young
Nothing
Too
Entertainment Business
See
Spirit
Tackle
My Own
Entrepreneurial
Entrepreneurial Spirit
Absolutely
Absolutely Nothing
Develop
Had
Couple
Sort
Always
Trying
Just
Young Age
Things
Cate Blanchett and others, they get this broad range of all these cool people they can play. Some women really do get it all. For me, it is the same thing that happens over and over. I should change that and maybe write my own thing.
Jennifer Coolidge
Me
Change
Women
People
Own
Same Thing
Others
Broad
Range
Some
My Own
Write
Cate Blanchett
Over
Get
Same
Maybe
Happens
Really
Should
Cool
Cool People
Play
Thing
Both my own process and that of the publishing industry are just too slow to do anything other than play catch-up when it comes to anticipating change.
Jennifer Egan
Change
Slow
Own
Too
Other
My Own
Both
Industry
Anticipating
Than
Just
Anything
Process
Play
Publishing
I've always been a defiant little animal - always very much my own person.
Jennifer Grey
Animal
Own
My Own
Always
Been
Very
Person
Little
Much
I've always had a love for making things my own.
Jennifer Hudson
Love
Own
My Own
Had
Always
Making
Things
I think I have got a very good sense of humour; other people don't, but I do. I also laugh at my own jokes.
Jennifer Johnston
Good
Jokes
People
Own
Sense
Think
Other
Humour
Laugh
My Own
Good Sense
Also
Got
Very
When I first started on television, people, and even my own manager at the time, would tell me I had to make all of these changes. But you have to stand up and say, 'There's nothing wrong with me or my shape or who I am; you're the one with the problem!' And when you can really believe that, all of a sudden other people start believing, too.
Jennifer Lopez
Time
Me
You
People
Problem
First
Own
Nothing
Believe
Too
Other
Changes
Say
Television
Tell
Would
My Own
Shape
Had
Wrong
Make
Am
Up
Manager
Really
Stand
Stand Up
Who
Even
Sudden
Believing
Start
Start Believing
Started
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