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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As long as you identify with the universe - which is perfect and can correct material conditions to bring them back into alignment with that Divine perfection - as long as that is where your mind is aligned, it's as though there were two parallel universes. You decide with every thought you think which one you're going to inhabit. Two parallel universes of experience, as it were.
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A housewife deserves to be honored as much as a woman who earns her living in the marketplace. I consider bringing up children a responsible job. In fact, being a good housewife seems to me a much tougher job than going to the office and getting paid for it.
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You really notice how you're growing when you go on tour. To be able to tour around the world, and do bigger venues every year, is really, really cool.
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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.
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I come from a family of storytellers. Growing up, my father would make up these stories about how he and my mother met and fell in love, and my mother would tell me these elaborately visual stories of growing up as a kid in New York, and I was always so enrapt.
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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.
