Jenji Kohan Quotes
I think great writers should write great shows, and I have trouble with, like, what you are in life shouldn't automatically make you what you do in your art. It doesn't necessarily translate.
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Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
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I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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It's fun until someone gets hurt...then it's hilarious.
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I don't have any one way to tell a story. I don't have any rule book of how it's supposed to be done. But I've always said that if a story would be more emotionally involving told, beginning, middle, and end, I'll tell it that way. I won't jigsaw it, just to show what a clever boy I am. I don't do anything in my script just to be clever.
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I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography.
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It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.
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It's amazing what you can learn to get used to.
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I think great writers should write great shows, and I have trouble with, like, what you are in life shouldn't automatically make you what you do in your art. It doesn't necessarily translate.
