Jemima Khan Quotes
I couldn't define my style; that's impossible. I like comfort and elegance with a bit of glamour thrown in. If I like something, I'll wear it for years.
Quotes to Explore
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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In this business, you get an opportunity, and you pounce on it.
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We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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We show our faces to support the billions of young people who suffer a lack of education. We show our faces to honour the potential of every young individual on this planet.
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How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
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No one believes more strongly than I do that every Christian should be a theologian. In that sense, we all need to work it out. I want all Christians who can read, to read their Bibles and to read beyond the Bible - to read the history and theology.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.
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I've never played a character that would sing.
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Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'
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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
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For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.
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I love indices! They are poetry in and of themselves, depending on the book.
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Big business increasingly likes to portray itself as socially concerned, adopting the style of civic action through 'campaigns' of varying degrees of cynicism.
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Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.
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I couldn't define my style; that's impossible. I like comfort and elegance with a bit of glamour thrown in. If I like something, I'll wear it for years.
