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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We just here to do our job.
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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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I don't regret anything about my younger career, mainly because we were children and didn't have too much power, but also because it gave us the privilege to be where we are now.
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I think you ought to say so, otherwise your comparison is entirely worthless.
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There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn't exist.
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Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
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As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like Wallace Stegner up in Northern California, and all the political New Journalism stuff, the Boys on the Bus dudes and Ken Kesey.
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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.
