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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I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!
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Absorb ideas from every source.
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I was actually picked on as a kid. I guess in high school it started to change for me. I guess being picked on made a lasting impression on me so I never - whenever somebody calls me handsome or anything like that, I never take it for granted. I appreciate it every time I hear it, so it's never something that gets old.
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I knew from the start that I wanted my life to be about music. I taught myself the notes of the piano aged three, and then I spent the next few years deconstructing chords to figure out how to play them. At 11, I researched online the sort of music school I wanted to attend, printed out the details, and handed them to my parents.
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I think there are periods in this country when behavior is abhorrent: McCarthy, Watergate, Bill Clinton. It's just a question of how the checks and balances in the American system work and how leaders stand up to it or don't stand up to it.
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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.
