Jenji Kohan Quotes
For a lot of people, film is still the dream - the captive audience in the darkened theater - but I love TV. I think it's fantastic.
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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I listen to music constantly while writing.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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I always try to give my songs as gifts.
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The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.
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'Castle' isn't really affected emotionally by murder. He's thrilled about, 'Oh, my God, I wonder how this happened?'
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The Internet had a core innovation that made it valuable: The ability to disseminate data over a distributed network in a way that was significantly cheaper than the prior methods.
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My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.
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Grief is a world you walk through skinned, unshelled.
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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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When I read 'Fantastic Beasts,' the world that J. K. Rowling has created is so wonderful.
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For a lot of people, film is still the dream - the captive audience in the darkened theater - but I love TV. I think it's fantastic.
