Jena Malone Quotes

I tell my agent that I want to read everything.

Jena Malone

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• I am a Muslim. I am born to Muslim parents. I have a Muslim son. I have been imprisoned and witnessed torture for my previous understanding of my religion.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Parents
  • Understanding
  • Religion

• People die because they find living too painful.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • People
  • Die
  • Living

• A true man hates no one.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • True
  • Man
  • True Man

• My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Women

• There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Women
  • You
  • Living

• I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.

  

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika
  • Work
  • Political
  • Unity

• America's peak years of indigenous innovation ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. There were a few financial panics and two depressions, to be sure. But in this period, a frenzy of creative activity, economic competition and rapid growth in national income provided widening economic inclusion, rising wages for all, and engaging careers for most.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • America
  • Growth
  • Period

• It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • People
  • Food
  • Military

• I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Good
  • Know
  • Movies

• Fame creeps up on you.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • You
  • Fame

• So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Women
  • You
  • Start

• There's that old journalism rule that sunshine is the great disinfectant - which is how reporters bust their way into meetings and such all the time. In sports, I really think winning is the great disinfectant.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Time
  • Great
  • Sports

• Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

  

  Dan Millman
  • People
  • Success
  • Fear

• Everybody will say that they're not opposed to immigration; they're opposed to illegal immigration. That's what I'm saying.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Say
  • Immigration
  • Saying

• Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Become
  • Without
  • Deadlines

• The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book - which was a list of flowers and their meanings - de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Book
  • Poetry
  • Flower

• As far as stand-ups go, I always loved Richard Pryor, Chris Rock, and Sinbad. Basically, I love black comedians because they're the funniest. I wish I were a black comedian, actually.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Love
  • Black
  • Wish

• People say, 'Where do you live?' and I say that theoretically, I live in London, but basically that's just where I go to change my suitcase. Otherwise, I'm always flying somewhere.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Live
  • Change

• We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Past

• Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

  

  Kay Redfield Jamison
  • Depression
  • Grief

• It doesn't occur to me that I don't drive a cool car until I hang out with Jon Hamm, who picks me up in what looks like a Transformer, and I think, 'Oh, that's what movie stars are driving. I guess I'm not a movie star.'

  

  Bill Hader
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Cool

• The Seventies seemed like this really open time. There were a lot of strong women characters deciding what kind of artists they wanted to be.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Women
  • Strong

• It is okay not to like someone, but it is never okay to try and degrade, humiliate, or dehumanize them.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Degrade
  • Humiliate
  • Dehumanize

• I tell my agent that I want to read everything.

  

  Jena Malone