JoJo
JoJo
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth20 December 1990
CountryUnited States of America
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I've always been a focused person who knows how to get what I want.
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Novelists seem to fall into two distinct categories - those that plan and those that just see where it takes them. I am very much the former category.
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Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.
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In the early part of 2005, people were talking about the Philippines being the next Argentina. People aren't talking about that scenario anymore.
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In our view, if the state of emergency is short-lived, then it should not have a measurable impact on economic activity and thus preserve the gains from the fiscal reform effort, which is the cornerstone of the positive view toward the Philippines.
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In 'Me Before You,' the two characters popped into my head fully formed, which is really strange and unusual. Other books, I sit on them for two or three months. I have a whole routine: I buy a nice book; I hand-write all their characteristics. I put them through little tests just to see how they would react to things.
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I liked the up-tempo game better. It?s constant, plus at the time the pay might have been a little better than the other two. But the truth is I just had more of a passion for the game of basketball than I did the other two.
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I have read books that are so cliched and lazy, my eyes have bled. But I also have read books marketed under the chick-lit umbrella that are so honest, clever and gritty that I've wanted to give up writing and paint walls instead.
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Chick-lit may be staggering on its heels, but women's fiction is alive and kicking.
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I?m a face in the community for our organization, and I?m having an absolute ball. It gives me an opportunity to relay all the things I learned with the organization and be able to help pass them down.
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I love 'To Kill A Mockingbird' - it seems to offer up new layers every time you read it. I also love Kate Atkinson's 'Behind The Scenes At The Museum' - that's the book that started me writing.
I try to read writers who are better than me because it inspires me to be better.
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A stylish person, for me, is one who draws your eye without necessarily being showy; they wear clothes that are beautifully cut, flatter the wearer, and show that they are not impervious to fashion, but not a slave to it either.
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Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.