Jenji Kohan Quotes
What offends me more than something sexist is something poorly written or unfunny or cliched.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.
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This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.
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It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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I grew up in the '90s. My goal isn't to be a '90s rapper, but I have little hints of '90s influence in my music. It's a modern approach to classic rap.
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I've been in so many love triangles on TV and in real life.
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With scientific advances, Congress must now make changes to reflect new therapeutic options.
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We are working with the power industry all over the world. We are meeting customers in aerospace and getting them to tour our plants.
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Listen: I like my bikinis very small, and I also like, uh, nude-colored bikinis because people double-take - they think I'm naked on the beach.
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I never pursued acting with, like, auditions. If anything, I was given roles by people who knew me and liked what I did.
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The radical Left loves attacking people as anti-science when anyone dares question their computer models on global warming.
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Dying's a boring side effect.
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Silliness which would have broken a politician twenty years ago, now makes his fortune.
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Peace is only better than war if peace is not hell too. War being hell makes sense.
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It was a harsh, rasping voice, in its timbre not unlike a sawmill.
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We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.
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He could have shot her from behind a hedge in the good old Irish fashion and probably got away with it.
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I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.
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In ethics, there is a humility; moralists are usually righteous.
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In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given trouble; they exist for it, they are geared to it. For the location of a mislaid volume, an uncatalogued item, your good librarian has a ferret’s nose. Give her a scent and she jumps the leash, her eye bright with battle.
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When you trust your readers, you're hoping they will see what you see. Not every book is for every person.
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My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.
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What offends me more than something sexist is something poorly written or unfunny or cliched.
