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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
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Hence vain deluding Joys,The brood of Folly without father bred!
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When the identity is realized, I as swordsman see no opponent confronting me and threatening to strike me. I seem to transform myself into the opponent, and every movement he makes as well as every thought he conceives are felt as if they were my own and I intuitively...know when and how to strike him.
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On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
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I do hope that all nations can live in complete security and welfare.
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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.
