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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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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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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You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.
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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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I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
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We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.
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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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I normally don't have that much confidence. I usually am trying to talk to directors out of giving me a job.
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I am firmly convinced that you shouldn't necessarily emphasize hedonism, especially at the beginning of a career, but should instead focus entirely on performance.
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Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.
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The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.
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Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.
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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.
