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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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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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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Colombian culture has had a huge influence on me and taught me a different way of looking at things - I was always different from the people I went to school with, and I learned to embrace that.
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I grew up in San Diego, California, and I spent a lot of time in the summer basically living in a bathing suit, you know, get in the car and drive straight to the beach and spend the entire day in that thing, so I always approached bathing suits thinking that they are very much like outfits.
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Respecting our veterans includes providing them the ways and means they so desperately need to reintegrate into our lives and serve us again as productive members of our civilian community.
Charles B. Rangel -
You choose to be happy, and in life we have as many good days as bad days. I try to find and record those songs that pull you through the bad days, and keep you believing that the good days are just around the corner.
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My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations.
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I just want to keep the diversity and the options open. In terms of what I'm looking for, I'd like to do a lead action role.
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The rapidity with which one can completely change one’s ideas . . . and accommodate ourselves to a state of barbarism is wonderful.
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In my head I'm a rapper, but I'm not!
