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 always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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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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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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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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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
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First and foremost, Tendulkar is an entertainer and that for me is as important factor as any fact or figure. Too often boring players have been pushed forward as great by figures alone. For sheer entertainment, he will keep cricket alive.
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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.
