Jan Burke quotes

“someone was telling me that no more applications were being accepted for the position of God.”
-- Jan Burke

Source : Jan Burke (2002). “Sweet Dreams, Irene: An Irene Kelly Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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“having people talk about you is an indication of how much more exciting your life is than theirs.”
-- Jan Burke

Source : Jan Burke (2002). “Sweet Dreams, Irene: An Irene Kelly Novel”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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“If the Internet has given us anything, it's some idea of how much psychosis goes undiagnosed.”
-- Jan Burke

Source : Jan Burke (2012). “Disturbance: An Irene Kelly Novel”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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“R.G. Belsky's thought-provoking thriller, The Kennedy Connection, introduces us to a smart, witty, and human hero whose quest to find answers about two crimes - one famous, one all but unnoticed - is loaded with tension and full of unexpected twists and turns. I loved The Kennedy Connection, and can't wait for the next Gil Malloy novel.”
-- Jan Burke

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“On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.”

“I want an intelligent girl whom I can talk about everything. I want her to be my friend, to be partners. I don't like when a girl is rough, but delicate and subtle. I like good manners and not rudeness nor arrogance.”

“Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.”

“In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.”

“It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted.”

Source : "Angie Stone: Soul on the Outside". "Ebony" Interview, www.ebony.com. August 16, 2012.

“You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

Source : Instagram post by Bindi Irwin @bindisueirwin, www.instagram.com. June 2, 2015.

“I've accepted the fact that because I'm human, I'm terrific in one thing, good at some, mediocre at a bit more, and terrible at others. And if you're human, you are too. You'll have to discover the one thing that you are good at and major in it.”

“You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.”

“I love the Instamatic application on my I phone, it takes the coolest photos.”

Source : "Supermodel Carolyn Murphy on Travel Hits and Misses". Interview with Stacie Krajchir, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2010.

“Because, you see, what I want to do is to commoditize the OS. I want to have access to all the applications that I need to do the things that I need to do, regardless.”