Jean Hanff Korelitz Quotes
Every so often in life, you encounter a brilliant idea. Usually, at least in my case, it's somebody else's idea.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.
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I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.
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My priorities are making sure we reduce class size and close the achievement gap.
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With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.
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To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.
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A border collie saved me once when I was pinned under a horse in Colorado. And once when I went through the ice, one of my sled dogs saw me go under, and she got the rest of the team, and they pulled me out of 12 feet of water. I think that dogs offer the only form of unconditional love that's available to humans.
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My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up going to U.C. Davis because, to them, Berkeley was too radical.
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It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
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I could have gone on flying through space forever.
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Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.
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It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.
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Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
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I'm always looking for something to engage my imagination and take me on a little mental voyage. I just want a new topic in my life.
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Every so often in life, you encounter a brilliant idea. Usually, at least in my case, it's somebody else's idea.
