Jean Hanff Korelitz Quotes
I made it to London aged six, an event I recorded in my diary with coloured markers to convey my sense of occasion. And in 1983, after graduating from college, I returned to spend two years at Cambridge University.
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.
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At the most elite level, your nutrition becomes a lifestyle: it's not something you have to do when you're preparing for Olympic games or World Cup games - you just do it. You're more inclined to eat healthier because it's better for your muscles.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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I don't judge my characters.
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I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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Embrace your weirdness!
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Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frosting intact, haul out the psychic calculator and start tinkering with the budget.
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I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out what I care about and what exactly to make of it.
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I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.
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If you're holding your iPhone, and it's the newest iteration of it, you're like, 'Oh, famous people have my phone. Captains of industry have my phone.' And that can be an intoxicating experience for someone who is going off to college for the first time.
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I made it to London aged six, an event I recorded in my diary with coloured markers to convey my sense of occasion. And in 1983, after graduating from college, I returned to spend two years at Cambridge University.
