Jean Hanff Korelitz Quotes
Like many people, I have a fascination with lies and the people who tell them. I wouldn't say I've never told a lie, but I don't think I've ever told one without both assuming I would be found out and feeling absolutely rotten about it.
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
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As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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Leaks are always bad news.
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I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.
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It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
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What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.
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Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
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Yesterday, we were a weak and small country trampled upon by big powers. Today, our geopolitical location remains the same, but we are transformed into a proud political and military power and an independent people that no one can dare provoke. The days are gone forever when our enemies could blackmail us with nuclear bombs.
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Like many people, I have a fascination with lies and the people who tell them. I wouldn't say I've never told a lie, but I don't think I've ever told one without both assuming I would be found out and feeling absolutely rotten about it.
