Jean Hanff Korelitz Quotes
I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up.
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I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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I'm not a control freak.
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I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
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I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
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Anytime I hear songs that are so honest, whether they make the person who's singing it look good or not, there's a level of honesty that resonates with people.
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There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as his life. Such grief, felt in such a way is always present, it is never too late to talk about it, never repetitious to mention it again.
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If I can convince you that I'm going to beat you up, and you believe me, that's your fault.
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I really cherish the memories I have of my trips. For some reason, when you travel, it's like your mind picks up on the fact that this is something uncharacteristic, so it tunes in more acutely and remembers better.
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I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up.
