Jenji Kohan Quotes
When I got out of college in 1991, I had four jobs in four different parts of L.A. There was I Love Juicy, a smoothie bar in Venice, and the Videotheque on Sunset Boulevard, across from the old Tower Records. I was also an intern at the 'Los Angeles Reader' in the Miracle Mile and at 'High Performance' magazine downtown.
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Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
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It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
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No man may make another free.
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Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
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I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
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The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.
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If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.
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One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.
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Other people can write grown-up, political plays about the troubles in the world. My plays deal with magic and hope.
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I'm not talented enough to drop everything and become somebody different.
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When I am making a sequel, it needs to be different from what you have already seen. Yet, it needs to maintain a certain discipline so that people still associate it with the prequel.
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When I got out of college in 1991, I had four jobs in four different parts of L.A. There was I Love Juicy, a smoothie bar in Venice, and the Videotheque on Sunset Boulevard, across from the old Tower Records. I was also an intern at the 'Los Angeles Reader' in the Miracle Mile and at 'High Performance' magazine downtown.
