Jean Hanff Korelitz Quotes
A mutt is a dog. He is the stuff of dogginess, a creature allied to species, not breed, and untrammeled by human hand or preference.
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
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I want to do good for Israel. My philosophy is let's do good stuff, and let's see what happens. And que sera, sera.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.
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I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.
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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.
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Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.
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The easier it looks on screen, the more hard work goes into making it so.
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Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses.
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I'm not somebody who is genetically gifted when it comes to facial hair.
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Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
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I think people have to sharpen their eyes and look. I always feel like a big sponge: I feel like I learn lots of things by osmosis, and I feel that I'm always absorbing. I mean, when people say, 'What is your inspiration?' I could throw up. I mean, I'm inspired by the fact I get up in the morning. And I'm still here.
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I'm not a doctor - so I can't describe flashbacks well - but it is like you're living it again.
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I walk my dog every morning.
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Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?
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Jesus said, 'Judge not, lest ye be judged.' Let's stop trying to choose the political leaders who we believe are the most godly because, in reality, only God knows people's hearts. You and I don't, and we are all sinners.
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I've never been big into self-promotion. It's awkward for me. Just seeing my name on a T-shirt freaks me out.
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A mutt is a dog. He is the stuff of dogginess, a creature allied to species, not breed, and untrammeled by human hand or preference.
