Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of … - Anna Quindlen

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There's a team of filmmakers who follow me in the streets when I'm finding these models, to give me a sense of legitimacy to a casual stranger. This is New York City. No one's going to follow you back to your studio.

Anna Quindlen

Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we're selling this deadly stuff anyway?

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Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting older than we pretend. It was interesting to me when I first started working on this book that I'd mentioned that I was writing a memoir about aging and everybody would moan and groan and carry on.

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I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehersal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.

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Not writing at all leads to nothing.

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Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

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When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.

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