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.
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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.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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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.
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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.
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Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
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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.
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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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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.
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I love Channing Tatum!
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The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
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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.
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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.
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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?'
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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I've been lucky enough that in the U.K., I've done shows that have aired once a week. I make a show there that runs seasonally, and we make one episode a week, and that is great - the value of time. You can really think and finesse what you want to do.
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I'm happiest when I'm with my daughter and I don't have any distractions with my phone going off.
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It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.
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It's hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth.
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I see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play.
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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.
