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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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 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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I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.
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Whenever I cook, I think of Spanish music, so I always have to listen to some sort of salsa. It gets your body going.
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International terrorists have proved quite skilled at misleading many people about what is actually happening here in the Caucasus, and they continue to mislead people today.
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Country seems to be finding a bigger audience. Certainly an audience out of the general country scene is finding me.
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Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
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For me, the amazing thing was entering into this amazing world of 'Sesame Street.' We'd be in the kids' room, and there was a door into the soundstage that said '1-2-3 Open Sesame.' I remember pushing that door open and going into this incredible magical world of make-believe. In one episode, I was playing football with Joe Namath.
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There is presumably an upper limit to the carrying capacity of humans on earth—of the numbers that agriculture can support—and that number is usually estimated at between 13-15 billion, though some people think the ultimate numbers might be much higher.
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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.
