Jenna Wortham Quotes
Social media is my portal into the rest of the world - my periscope into the communities next to my community, into how the rest of the world thinks and feels.
Quotes to Explore
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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I'm competitive. I don't like to lose.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
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I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.
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I'll never be Jennifer Lawrence or Tom Cruise, someone who can hold a movie and then be charming and charismatic doing promotion. I haven't got what they've got. But at least I'm now comfortable just being myself.
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I was a little confused as a kid because I grew up with my mom, and my mom is black. So, I was cultured in a very 'black' way. But when I go to school, I'm getting called 'white.' They would look at me, and they would curse me out. I didn't understand. I just knew I saw people of all different shades, and I was light. Now, I'm in a much bigger world.
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The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.
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Social media is my portal into the rest of the world - my periscope into the communities next to my community, into how the rest of the world thinks and feels.
