Jean Hanff Korelitz Quotes
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There are a lot of really great cartoonists out there. It's nice to be thought of as one of them.
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Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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In the days when I was the big hero, the money wasn't much. Nobody made anything on television in those days.
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Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.
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Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.
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'Are 'Friends' Electric?' was two songs: the verse part and the talking part. Two different songs I couldn't finish. One day I was playing the main verse part of 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and after a few minutes I got frustrated, as normal, then started to play the other song, and realized they went together.
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It is possible that the digital world may change the need for physical branches. We will continue to add branches incrementally, but we will reach a point - whether it is 1,500, 1,800 or 2,000 branches - where we will say enough is enough.
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I would say 'American Werewolf in London' is like an unconventional buddy movie: even if the buddy dies 20 minutes in, he still remains throughout the picture, and their partnership is one of the best things in the movie.
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So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.
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All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification.
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People say Malala's voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala's voice reaching the world and resonating globally. You should think about what is behind Malala's voice. What is she saying? I am only talking about education, women's rights, and peace.
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My experience is in merging extraordinary creative content with innovative global commerce.
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Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.
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If we are enforcing what should be the rules around Medicare and making sure the people are getting the bang for the buck, it's not going to be possible for insurance companies to simply pass on those costs to Medicare recipients, because ultimately it's Uncle Sam that's paying for those services anyway.
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If you don't have the smoking gun, then it's pointless to hector interviewees. Because you just shut people up instead of opening them up.
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When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything.
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There’s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that you’re alive. It’s almost like we’re mad because we’ve been shocked out of our usual comatose state of being by feeling something for someone, for ourselves, for just a moment.
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Personally, I would love to see every gun on the planet disappear.
