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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Smiling makes you and others feel better, and it makes you look younger.
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A man's task is to find himself, and if he fails in this, it doesn't much matter what else he finds.
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I really enjoy the social aspects of music as much as anything.
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My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
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In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down.
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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.
