Jenji Kohan Quotes
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When I was 16, I definitely burned a couple of bridges by saying, 'I won't do this!' I was not diplomatic about it. I came to a fitting and was like, 'I don't wear fur; cancel this show!'
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Public-Private Partnership in financing, service delivery and provision of workspaces and training of trainers must be promoted to meet the demand and supply gap in the field of skill development.
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I have always been very comfortable in little clothing; its part of my job.
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I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.
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My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for.
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I've always loved comic books, which is why I've done films like 'Hulk' and 'The Punishers.'
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My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin.
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I like getting 'Times' articles online. But the actual paper just has too many words.
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I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software.
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There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money.
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When I was a little girl, my mother tried to make me dance, but I did not like it then.
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I do a lot of writing about my family.
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The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did.
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A society that put more emphasis on birth than ability was likely to breed ability out of its ruling class.
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The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravityAre constructed with considerable care.
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Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.
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I have often found that mental patients who are given love, creativity, and community find the peace that they are reaching out for.
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An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
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Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
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All peoples enjoy freedom, and freedom for the development of their culture... There is no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union at all... I have many friends who are Jews.
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The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.
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Suicide was such a formative band for me, so influential in the development of my taste. They're one of those bands that operated in absolute isolation for so long that they developed a completely unique world view.
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Oh yeah, the preacher's kid has to be the baddest one. If everyone is smoking weed, we've got to smoke crack. If you're throwing rocks, we've got to throw bigger rocks
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In my head I'm a rapper, but I'm not!
