Jenna Wortham Quotes
Over the years, I've come to realize that sometimes a ghost isn't always a ghost. Sometimes, telling a ghost story is a way to talk about something else present in the air, taking up space beside you. It can also be a manifestation of intuition, or something you've known in your bones but haven't yet been able to accept.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.
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I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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'Bramhotsavam' is a celebration of families, life and togetherness. It's a film I hold close to my heart.
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I believe the way we dress on a daily basis is our message we put out to the world.
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As we go through this transition where a lot more people will be reading on devices, nobody is paying enough attention to make sure it's a smooth transition. I believe we still need places where people can go to handle, hold and talk about books, get information about what books are out there, and so on.
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I recognise my old self in a lot of the letters I get from single women who are unrealistic about what they want.
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Implicit bias - our subconscious associations of race - permeates everything that we do. And we must pursue systemic accountability to fix it.
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Over the years, I've come to realize that sometimes a ghost isn't always a ghost. Sometimes, telling a ghost story is a way to talk about something else present in the air, taking up space beside you. It can also be a manifestation of intuition, or something you've known in your bones but haven't yet been able to accept.
