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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• 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.

  

  Abraham Polonsky
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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.

  

  Ram Dass
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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.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
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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.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
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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.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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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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• Creating efficiencies in private markets is a huge win for the economy.

  

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• The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.

  

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• Muichi Motsu: "Hold nothing": If you meet Buddha, kill Buddha. If you meet the patriarchs, kill the patriarchs. Free of all, bound by nothing, you live your life simply as it is

  

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• The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song - not one. Not two.

  

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• It blows me away the number of truck drivers or macho guys that will call, and then I start peeling back the layers, and I find out they've been listening to me for 10 or 15 years, and they know every lyric to every sappy song.

  

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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.

  

  Jean Hanff Korelitz
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