Jandy Nelson Quotes
I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries.
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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The clash of civilizations or the clash between Islam and the West may be cliches. But there is an even bigger cliche around: that this clash actually goes on within Islam, between reformists and fanatics.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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In all honesty, I didn't love reading when I was a kid. I'd rather be running around in the woods or doing my best to scare the pants off all the children in the neighborhood by pretending my house was haunted or making them play Bloody Mary in the bathroom.
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I've always just been more comfortable as an outsider.
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To me, family is what is important. If you don't have it, nothing is going to matter.
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I don't believe the government should determine what a woman does in this area any more than it should tell a chief executive how to run a company. Personal and family matters, relationships between doctors and patients should not be within the purview of government.
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I reached rock bottom halfway through college. And it was - because of all the pressure that I think we're talking about right now - the pressure to learn how to budget, the pressure to really abandon everything that you ever learned. You don't have a comfort zone anymore. You don't have your neighborhood. You don't have your family with you.
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I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries.
