Jenji Kohan Quotes

I'm a huge Ira Glass fan; I'm a huge fan of radio in general.

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• I worked with HBO on 'Recount,' and we had a wonderful experience together. I'm such a fan of HBO and how much flexibility they give in character as well as schedule.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Together

• I don't like crazy names. I don't like them. I don't think it makes any sense. You have to think about the child and, as they get older, what they have to deal with. A lot of people do things as a fad, and they want to get some attention, but it's like, this is your child.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Attention
  • Crazy

• In my opinion, the Warren Commission's investigation has to be considered the most comprehensive investigation of a crime in history.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • History
  • Opinion
  • Crime

• You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • Walk
  • Winner
  • Edge

• Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Business
  • Ugly

• It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens. There are other things I enjoy doing, and I involve myself in them.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • World
  • Job
  • Movie

• My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really the poster children for the bad public laws that segregated, according to race, in our country.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Country
  • Children
  • Bad

• Imagine if every airport would blast Brian Eno. I bet going through security wouldn't be as difficult. I can't imagine someone being aggressive with me with Brian Eno music pumping through the terminals at LAX.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Music
  • Difficult
  • Security

• I started really thinking a lot about where does a country go when we stop being able to speak to each other, when a nation stops being able to solve problems because its ideological differences become so deep that it just becomes dysfunctional.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Stop

• Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes and touches you With a thousand memories, And asks you Beautiful, unanswerable questions.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Beautiful
  • Memories
  • Red

• 'When it comes to strangers with guns,' I told her, 'I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.'

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Trust

• Twenty men crossing a bridge, Into a village, Are Twenty men crossing a bridge Into a village.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Men
  • Bridge

• Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt,And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt.

  

  Edward Young

• Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • May
  • Road

• No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot, survivor of that time, that place. - 1961

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Time
  • Sky

• What I care most about is representing my constituents. If that ruffles a few feathers along the way, so be it.

  

  Jared Polis

• Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

  

  Dorothy Day
  • Together
  • Mercy

• I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial.

  

  Lorraine Bracco

• I try to make pieces that are durable. One of the reasons that I work in steel is durability.

  

  Jeff Koons
  • Work

• I have been making hip-hop since I was a kid growing up in New York in the '80s and '90s. It's always been a hobby of mine - I've been making beats and writing songs for as long or longer than I've been acting.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Up
  • Long
  • Writing

• I don't claim to know everything. I claim to be a seeker of knowledge.

  

  Marie Osmond
  • Knowledge

• Being on set is a hard thing. A lot of people are like, 'Oh, you get to make a movie, and it's all fun.' But the reality is, it's a lot of hours. It's a lot of reshoots; it's a lot of waiting. And you can become increasingly agitated by the amount of time that you are waiting. But that's real.

  

  Jill Scott
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• When you know quite absolutely that everything is unreal, you then cannot see why you should take the trouble to prove it.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Why

• I'm a huge Ira Glass fan; I'm a huge fan of radio in general.

  

  Jenji Kohan