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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The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts 'rapping.'
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Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.
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I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!
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Those games drew a lot of people; the fans loved every minute of it.
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No one told Miles Davis or BB King to pack it in. John Lee Hooker played literally up to the day he died. Why should pop musicians be any different?
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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.
