Jean Hanff Korelitz Quotes
When you get right down to it, there's something uniquely satisfying in being gripped by a great plot, in begrudging whatever real-world obligations might prevent you from finding out what happens next.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
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If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness. That's the space I entered when I met my guru.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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What I find is that it's the middle-aged authors who have lived a life who have the most important, interesting voices. They just need someone to give them the key to unlock the door.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.
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Pop music - deriving from the word 'popular' - for me, it's just great to be a part of music that reaches a large amount of people and not just a small amount of people.
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It was great to watch Orson Welles, not only as an actor but as a director.
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I believe in entrepreneurs. I believe in their ability to make positive change in the world.
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I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.
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When you get right down to it, there's something uniquely satisfying in being gripped by a great plot, in begrudging whatever real-world obligations might prevent you from finding out what happens next.
