Jan Koum Quotes
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It's so hard for me to kind of fall in love with comedy, but if something comes my way... I mean, I loved 'Weird,' I thought that was a really fun character.
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It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
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I actually like football a great deal.
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I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.
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I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
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Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These books are not concerned with style or creativity - instead they are successful because they are repetitive and follow a template that readers enjoy.
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Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have to make a time travel game someday!
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The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the process will allow you much more freedom as you go along.
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People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.
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I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.
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I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it.
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Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.
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Things of the spirit are what count: brotherhood – in a day when there is too much hatred at home and abroad; cheerfulness – in a day when the pessimists have the floor and cynics are popular; service – in a day when millions are interested in getting or grasping, rather than giving
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There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.
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A lot of companies are global.
