Jenji Kohan Quotes
I'm never going to look like a Nordic model, so I play with what I've got. Instead of going gray, I dye my hair bright colors; I have bad vision, so I wear sparkly glasses. I embrace that I look like a crazy lady.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
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A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.
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Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.
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I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.
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The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
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Most Americans believe that with freedom comes responsibility - and that one measure of responsible gun ownership is a background check. There must be an app for that.
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If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad, and to describe some fictional enterprises as false is pointless.
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People who start habitually exercising tend on average to eat better. They also tend to use their credit cards less and procrastinate less.
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If you simply accept life as it is, you will be a lot more fulfilled and increasingly worry free.
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To-day unbind the captive, So only are ye unbound; Lift up a people from the dust, Trump of their rescue, sound!
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I'm never going to look like a Nordic model, so I play with what I've got. Instead of going gray, I dye my hair bright colors; I have bad vision, so I wear sparkly glasses. I embrace that I look like a crazy lady.
