Jenji Kohan Quotes

I don't set out to write female lead shows, necessarily. I like deeply flawed characters. When they come to me, or when I'm introduced to them, I follow the stories and the people, rather than setting out to do a female lead thing.

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• I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.

  

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• I had to work with a psychiatrist.

  

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• I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.

  

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• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

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• I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.

  

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• If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.

  

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• So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

  

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• Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.

  

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• What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

  

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• I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.

  

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• My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.

  

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• The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.

  

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• I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'

  

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• I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

  

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• You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.

  

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• Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.

  

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• It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.

  

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• As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.

  

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• The really pop country stuff can sound a little bland because they put in strings and horns and all of that.

  

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• Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.

  

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• No one wants to stay in the tabloids. But it's actually not a terrible place to start.

  

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• I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that.

  

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• Kids will tease you for just about anything.

  

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• I don't set out to write female lead shows, necessarily. I like deeply flawed characters. When they come to me, or when I'm introduced to them, I follow the stories and the people, rather than setting out to do a female lead thing.

  

  Jenji Kohan
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