Jean Hanff Korelitz Quotes
As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's interesting is watching them rise again, and seeing how they've changed and grown, if indeed they have.
Jean Hanff Korelitz
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
Fabrizio Moreira
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
Babasaheb
Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
Venus Williams
My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.
Eddy Cue
When I think about making 'Within,' it was not a very fun experience at all.
Washed Out
I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
Danica McKellar
A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.
Jack Falahee
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.
Canelo Alvarez
Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?
Padma Lakshmi
It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.
Nalo Hopkinson
I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
Salman Rushdie
When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by the week, or month, their smiles and their kindly gestures, and they must practice that prompt repression of resentment and aggression.
C. Wright Mills
And I like to keep whatever is mine remaining that way. It's a funny little game to play and it's a slippery slope. I always say to myself I'm never going to give anything away because there's never any point or benefit for me.
Kristen Stewart
Being a single woman is like going off to war.
Zoe Lister-Jones
I always remember this neighbor who would ask me to babysit for her. She looked like Jayne Mansfield, and I remember babysitting for, like, five hours and she would pay me 80 cents, with a phony smile. I used to go home fuming to my mum.
Jennifer Coolidge
Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce.
David Chipperfield
As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's interesting is watching them rise again, and seeing how they've changed and grown, if indeed they have.
Jean Hanff Korelitz
