Jean Hanff Korelitz Quotes
You'd have to go all the way back to 1972 to find a version of me who didn't care about theater, who didn't read Playbill and watch the Tony Awards, or get why Bob Fosse's choreography was so groundbreaking that all you need to say is 'Fosse hands' and theater people know what you mean.
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
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Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
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I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.
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I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
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I've become really interested in permaculture, simplifying my life and doing everything I can to develop more of a sustainable lifestyle.
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Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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A mature Christian recognizes that correcting every wrong on the Internet would take more hours than a full-time job. If you snap every time your great-aunt’s friend’s cousin thrice-removed makes a snarky comment about “all the contradictions in the Bible,” it will consume you and your joy.
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I believe in having total clarity around our goals. I believe in creating these goals together as a group and making sure they're aligned with Bob Iger's goals for the Walt Disney Co. And more than anything, making sure people understand that they have a responsibility to one another.
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It's always been most important for me to figure out "my space" rather than trying to check out what everyone else is up to, minute by minute. Technology is making it easier to connect to other people, but maybe harder to keep connected to yourself-- and that's essential for any artist, I think.
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You'd have to go all the way back to 1972 to find a version of me who didn't care about theater, who didn't read Playbill and watch the Tony Awards, or get why Bob Fosse's choreography was so groundbreaking that all you need to say is 'Fosse hands' and theater people know what you mean.
