Jena Malone Quotes

I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.

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• My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.

  

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• Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.

  

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• Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

  

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• Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.

  

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• One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

  

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• Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.

  

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• We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.

  

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• People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.

  

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• I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.

  

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• I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.

  

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• When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.

  

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• I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.

  

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• I generally have a brand of brief on every day.

  

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• There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.

  

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• Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

  

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• I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.

  

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• You must not judge people by their country. In South America, it is always wise to judge people by their altitude.

  

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• I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.

  

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• In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.

  

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• I'm process-orientated. Awards, by their nature, are results-orientated.

  

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• In retrospect, the most unnerving aspect of being openly gay was that it turned out to be as disappointingly normal as being straight.

  

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• I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.

  

  Jena Malone
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  • Children