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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It's really hard to grow with another person.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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I think just in general there's a bunch of films that mattered to me that didn't reach their potential, and on some level you have to assume responsibility for that. And I think over the years that gets difficult.
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
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Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.
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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.
