Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that enables you to be present for the good stuff.


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When somebody follows you 20 blocks to the pharmacy, where they watch you buy toilet paper, you know...
JENNIFER ANISTON
You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'godd...
JENNIFER ANISTON
Free love never works.
JENNIFER ANISTON
It gets so boring you know just to do the same thing over and over again.
JENNIFER ANISTON
I spent my first paycheck on a vintage Mercedes.
JENNIFER ANISTON
Oh, it's not really gambling when you never lose.
JENNIFER ANISTON
The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You're allowed the ...
JENNIFER ANISTON
Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day.
JENNIFER ANISTON
I always say don't make plans, make options.
JENNIFER ANISTON
Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurt...
JENNIFER CAPRIATI
When one neighbor helps another, we strengthen our communities.
JENNIFER PAHLKA
The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.
JENNIFER LAWRENCE
Few men in their 70s looked as good as my father did. What was his secret? Genes, maybe, since he di...
JENNIFER GRANT
In life, there are those relationships where you really love someone, but they're just not right...
JENNIFER MORRISON
Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.
JENNIFER ARMENTROUT
I've, we have in this state, like many other states, we're experiencing an enormous budget d...
JENNIFER GRANHOLM
I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains...
JENNIFER DAMIANO
It's so easy to be boxed into one part and one part only.
JENNIFER ANISTON
There is no "I", there's only "we". Meaning all you can touch, and all that you see is a part of you...
JENNIFER SODINI
The alchemy of life is to turn coins into cents, by making sense of change.
JENNIFER SODINI
My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from colleg...
JENNIFER GARNER
My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her.
JENNIFER ANISTON
We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're f...
JENNIFER PAHLKA
I drink coconut water before my workouts. It has just the right amount of calories and electrolytes ...
JENNIFER MORRISON
Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was ex...
JENNIFER CHIAVERINI
I wanted to have a go at a pop career. My first single, 'Baby I Don't Care', was a hit, ...
JENNIFER ELLISON
And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've sta...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE
When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an imp...
JENNIFER GRANHOLM
Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts,...
JENNIFER ANISTON
I feel like a Mac store! I have a Canadian iPhone, an American iPhone and an iPad. I'm constantl...
JENNIFER MORRISON
The Clinton administration brought 65 cases from 1995 to 2000 before the World Trade Organization. T...
JENNIFER GRANHOLM
My big sister Melissa, is such a stud and my little sister Suzanna, has always had a perfect body an...
JENNIFER GARNER
I assume the body language no matter what in doing voiceover. There is a transformative aspect.
JENNIFER HALE
One of the reasons 'Boogie Nights' is one of my favorite movies is because it's about pe...
JENNIFER KONNER
A boyfriend has so much to do with a woman blossoming.
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it reall...
JENNIFER LYNCH
What a terrible feeling to love soemone and not be able to help them.
JENNIFER NIVEN
Becuse God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.
JENNIFER DONNELLY