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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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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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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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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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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Terrorists are as torn as anyone else.
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Objectivity may also be defined as freedom: the objective individual is bound by no commitments which could prejudice his perception, understanding, and evaluation of the given.
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It's a sense of pride, a sense of you set out to get a record deal, and we got that. We set out to get a No. 1 record, and then we got that. Then you say, 'Wow, that was impossible and now even more impossible is to stay No. 1 and stay current and put out new records that people care about,' and we really stuck to that.
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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.
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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.
