Jenji Kohan Quotes
I can shoot off my big mouth and write my shows and run my shows, and I can recognize how lucky I am because my position is rare and my position is privileged.

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I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.
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I don't consider myself a celebrity and I don't consider myself a star.
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
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I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescue. And I also like to fly into the backcountry, usually the Frank Church Wilderness in Idaho. I go with a group of friends, and we set up camp for about five days and explore little dirt strips and canyons.
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My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.
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I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.
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I think coming East and doing something like Broadway would probably be a good career move.
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No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.
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Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked.
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It's kind of like some kind of church for me, playing live. Each show, good people from different pockets of the world come and open their soul and let their spirits mingle and dance. That energy comes up through me, and all I do is channel it; it's like a circular motion and very sacred.
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One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.
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If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.
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When you're from another country, you want to spend time with your family. All your family can't come here. All your friends can't come here. You spend so much time here, you want to go there, too.
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Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.
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And entreating his exalted weight, Under the stars, saints he planted.
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Bluid is thicker than water.
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My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the Stone Age. And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power-not with ground forces.
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How I prayed just to get awayTo carry me anywhereSometimes the angels punish usBy answering our prayers - Carnies (2012)
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Growing up, everybody told me I was good. I was playing ping-pong with my father, and he'd say, 'That's a good shot,' but I'd mess up the next one, and I'd yell, 'Don't tell me that! I'll mess up! Just don't say anything!' You know, if someone says, 'You can't do that,' then I'm going to be, 'Yeah, you watch me.'
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I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.
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If I had it life to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.
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Sometimes it's better to just let the wave overcome you and then pick up the shards when it passes
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Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.
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I can shoot off my big mouth and write my shows and run my shows, and I can recognize how lucky I am because my position is rare and my position is privileged.