Jenna Blum Quotes
My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
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I'm not a good loser. I get sick physically... I take it to heart. I hate it.
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
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There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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I just feed off the energy of the audience.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get confused. We think we're the center of everything.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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Peer mediation is a chance for students to work with other students to help them resolve problems, arguments, disagreements without having to get the teacher or the administration involved.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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For many years, even as users became more sophisticated, personal computers took too much effort to use without problem-solving, keeping alive the yearning for greater simplicity. Microsoft's dominant Windows platform, in particular, was a home for all manner of bugs and problems that required IT people to straighten out.
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Dad often told me, 'My job is to help my boss do his job and make him look good.' That was my dad's objective. Everything about the way he conducted himself was to communicate support for his superiors and respect for his coworkers. The way he dressed was his starting point in that communication.
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My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.
