Jenna Wortham Quotes
Our contemporary analogues to the personal notebook now live on the web - communal, crowdsourced, and shared online in real time. Some of the most interesting and vital work I come across exists only in pixels.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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You think about taking audiences on a journey.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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You can't just say I love you, you have to LIVE I love you.
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I didn't choose solitude.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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I go to the gym and work through a routine. But if you see someone with a personal trainer, you know they do 10 times more than you do. You give up your sense of identity. If you watch 'The Biggest Loser,' you see people give up their identity to become something else.
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Any artist, the work you do, if it's a painting or if it's a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else's life. That's what's fun about sharing art.
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Our contemporary analogues to the personal notebook now live on the web - communal, crowdsourced, and shared online in real time. Some of the most interesting and vital work I come across exists only in pixels.
