Jennifer Hyman Quotes
In early 2011, I had the opportunity to meet and spend significant time with Alfred Lin, a partner at Sequoia Capital and co-founder of Zappos.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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I like to keep my private life private.
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Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
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I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
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Honestly, I think the combine is a waste of time. The effort should be in film watching, physicals, and mental evaluations.
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My only plan every day is to get up and go to work, work hard and come back home. And whatever else needs to happen in my life will come in its own time.
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Why do I love Roald Dahl? His voice, more than anything. It's irreproducible. It's so musical, and it's funny even when it's not trying to be, which is most of the time.
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I grew up in the suburbs of Connecticut - during the school time of year - but I preferred it in New Hampshire. I preferred the culture, the landscape, the relative solitude. I've always loved it.
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Anne Boleyn was a warrior forced to use the only tools available to a woman in her position at that time. She was bold and ambitious, and had she had a son, history would have been very different.
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In early 2011, I had the opportunity to meet and spend significant time with Alfred Lin, a partner at Sequoia Capital and co-founder of Zappos.
