Jenna Wortham Quotes

Twitter, it can be said, completely changed the way activism is done, who can participate, and even how we define it.

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• The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Book

• That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.

  

  Gamaliel Bailey
  • Money
  • Free
  • Doubt

• You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Live
  • Death
  • Look

• When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Live
  • May
  • Like

• I don't mind a bikini bottom.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Mind
  • Bottom
  • Bikini

• I think of all the guys that strap a gun on their backs and head to Afghanistan and Iraq to keep us free and safe and maintain what America has stood for.

  

  Foster Friess
  • America
  • Free
  • Gun

• I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • People
  • Love
  • Doing

• I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Romantic
  • Sense

• As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Funny
  • Sound
  • Everyone

• Startups on the inside are always badly broken.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Always
  • Broken
  • Inside

• If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • World
  • Home
  • Man

• The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Planning
  • Meeting
  • Hood

• I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Love

• When I was a kid, I wasn't making my choices based on anything other than 'Did I want to work that day?' or 'Did being in school sound more fun?' And I don't remember ever reading a script and thinking, 'Is this going to be a fun part to play?'

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • School

• Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Duty
  • Impact
  • Beyond

• California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Different
  • House
  • Style

• We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Music
  • Best
  • Feels

• In politics, sometimes the best measure of success is the reaction of your enemies.

  

  Jerry Falwell, Jr.
  • Success

• Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Everything
  • Results
  • Strive

• My dad was a crazy person, but some of the best qualities about me came from him.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • Dad
  • Crazy

• I always think it's interesting to switch genres, because if I read a script and I know exactly how to manifest a story, I don't really want to do it anymore, because I've already done it in my head.

  

  Marc Forster
  • Done
  • Interesting

• For the kind of thing that we were showing, the budget was sufficient. As we were speaking of in Haiti, we had not done that before in exactly this form and we had to have costumes for it.

  

  Katherine Dunham
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• Twitter, it can be said, completely changed the way activism is done, who can participate, and even how we define it.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • Done