Jenji Kohan Quotes

I love flawed characters, male or female, and I only want to talk about flawed characters, really, in what I do.

Jenji Kohan

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• If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • Future
  • Dream

• The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Soul
  • Creativity
  • Meaning

• I don't even remember the last time I bought an album, honestly.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Last

• When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Time
  • Art
  • Fashion

• We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • America
  • Today
  • Lawyers

• Reading a Lydia Davis story collection is like reaching into what you think is a bag of potato chips and pulling out something else entirely: a gherkin, a pepper corn, a truffle, a piece of beef jerky.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Think
  • Reading
  • Story

• My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Books
  • Teenager
  • Experienced

• When I did 'Grease,' I took good care of myself. I treated it like a job. I approached it very professionally because I wanted to make a good reputation and hopefully continue on in the Broadway community and continue to do shows.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Good
  • Job
  • Community

• So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Mind
  • Changes
  • Wearing

• Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Important
  • Free
  • Fair

• I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Think
  • Human
  • Human being

• I want to be in a stable relationship and have kids by the time I'm 30.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Want

• Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
  • Future
  • Success
  • Carry

• The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • True
  • Reality
  • Facts

• When I do outdoor scenes, I tend to find a quiet space where I can sit and carve a walking stick that can turn out to be interesting for me.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Interesting
  • Space
  • Walking

• I still don't know why, exactly, but I do think people can have a spiritual connection to landscape, and I certainly did in Iceland.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • People
  • Why
  • Think

• There are the horror fans that love the 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, but I'm sure it's not all of them. Not all horror fans love 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, at least not me.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Evil
  • Fans
  • Humor

• I got into one of the schools I applied to because of the essay I wrote about Holly Hunter's character in 'Broadcast News.' She's the only female producer on this news network, and she's really good at her job, but she allots time in her day to just sit at her desk and cry. And then she's just back to work. I find that really effective.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Character

• Finally, ultimately, you write music for yourself. I mean, I need a public, I need people to play, I need everything else. I'm not working in isolation. But finally the man that writes the music is alone. And I have to respond to those criteria which are almost like inner needs or inner responses.

  

  Philip Glass
  • People
  • Music
  • Alone

• I love the writers in Austin. We stick together. We all like each other and go to each other's book signings in case no one else shows up.

  

  Elizabeth Crook
  • Singing
  • I Love
  • Writers

• I wouldn't be the first quarterback from California to go to cold weather. I think Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers are doing pretty well and been able to do it.

  

  Jared Goff
  • Pretty
  • Cold
  • California

• The only way I was going to come back to the Disney Channel was if I was in a position of more power.

  

  Zendaya
  • Power
  • Way
  • Back

• When I was an actor, I worked with lots of men who had a bit of success early on, who were very good looking, who suddenly made a bit of money and who felt no embarrassment - and nor should they have done - about having a good time.

  

  David Nicholls
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• I love flawed characters, male or female, and I only want to talk about flawed characters, really, in what I do.

  

  Jenji Kohan