Jean Hanff Korelitz Quotes

My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and once someone actually hired a screenwriter to adapt one of my books - but it all came to nothing, so I tried not to get too excited when a Hollywood suitor came calling for 'Admission,' my fourth novel.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

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• I wear jewellery that I never take off. I have a ring and two necklaces. I always have them on and get scared when I have to take them off for photo shoots. The ring is my mum's mum's mum's, and she gave it to me for my 18th birthday. The necklace is the same one that my sister has. She's called Hannah, and the name is the chain.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Sister
  • Birthday
  • Scared

• The market is so competitive. There are so many products that are similar. So we are forced to invest in innovative research in new products that are one or two years ahead of the market.

  

  Barry Lam
  • New
  • Research
  • Ahead

• I've spent more money on my theatres since I bought them than I did buying them.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Money
  • More
  • Buying

• My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Time
  • Athlete
  • Favorite

• You know, I lose patience really easily; I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Business
  • Patience
  • Apple

• I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Know
  • Mean
  • Exactly

• A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Animal
  • Ears
  • Fence

• I personally believe that our planet would be absolutely fine without religion, and I also feel we are evolving in that direction.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Believe
  • Religion
  • Direction

• I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Film
  • Made
  • Because

• You know I'm weak on good looks.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Good
  • You
  • Know

• There are 36 ways to tell this story. And all of them are disgusting.

  

  Damon Knight
  • Story
  • Tell
  • Disgusting

• I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • People
  • Bad
  • Reality

• When not working, I use a lot of treatments; from ancient casero - honey, avocado, stuff like that - other times, I buy ones you leave on for a few minutes. I don't blow dry my hair ever unless for work; I'd rather go for the natural look.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Work
  • Hair
  • Look

• The receivers are an integral part of the passing game.

  

  Hank Stram
  • Game
  • Passing
  • Integral

• I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Political

• How the fuck you feed a tree?...What...you put a ham sandwich on the tree?

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Tree

• 'I can never bring myself to believe it, John,' said Mary Walker, the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney, of Silverbridge.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Believe
  • Pretty
  • Daughter

• From almost the first day they got into office, they (President Bush and Vice President Cheney) were trying to figure out how to get rid of Saddam Hussein. I’m not a psychiatrist – I don’t know all of the reasons behind their concern, some might say their obsession.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Trying

• Last night the United States dropped four 2,000 pound bombs on Saddam Hussein. I don't know anything about explosives, but, my God, do those things even need to explode?

  

  David Letterman
  • God
  • Night

• Baldwin is sort of getting to be a bit funny. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago they suddenly went bankrupt and Gibson bought the whole outfit. Since then they haven't seemed to be doing an awfully good job of providing pianos.

  

  Marian McPartland
  • Good
  • Job
  • Funny

• Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science.

  

  James Bryant Conant
  • Science
  • Development
  • Engine

• As you know, I'm androgynous. I can wear a jacket that most guys wouldn't put on. But you make it in guys' sizes, and suddenly they're wearing them. I think styles should get back to getting people to wear things that look so good that they don't care.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • People
  • Good

• To lose the presence of the Red Cross from Temecula, in my way of thinking, would be a disaster.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Presence
  • Red Cross
  • Temecula

• My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and once someone actually hired a screenwriter to adapt one of my books - but it all came to nothing, so I tried not to get too excited when a Hollywood suitor came calling for 'Admission,' my fourth novel.

  

  Jean Hanff Korelitz