Jenji Kohan Quotes
I'm from the creative side of Hollywood. I'm up for anyone that wants to support my work. If you have eyeballs and give me a budget and are nice to me, I'm in.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.
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The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.
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I love New York. Love it.
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Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.
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I've never thought that what I do as an actor does anything for anybody, other than making them laugh once in a while.
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I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline.
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You know, when you're young, God sweeps you up. He holds you there. The real snag is to stay there and to know how to fall. All those days when you can't hold on any longer. When you tumble. The test is being able to climb up again.
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I wake up in the morning and I say 'Ahh! Today's the day for a song! I'm going to write a song today!' And I do. I write a song.
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I'm from the creative side of Hollywood. I'm up for anyone that wants to support my work. If you have eyeballs and give me a budget and are nice to me, I'm in.
