Jean Hanff Korelitz Quotes
To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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We need to fight to prove to people that it is possible to form an E.U. migration policy that is in line with the Hungarian national interest.
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Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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Excellence always sells.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
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And they are gone: ay, ages long agoThese lovers fled away into the storm.
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The State of Israel is a state that was formed before the people were even in it. You have to understand: In India, in Burma, in Pakistan - all of the people were already there. Their problem was for the English to leave so they could be independent.
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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
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That was where my dream began to take hold, of not havin' to pick cotton and potatoes, and not havin' to be uncomfortable, too hot or too cold. That in itself had driven me to try to find some better way of life.
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To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.
