Jennifer Konner Quotes
The thing that's different about 'Girls' and 'Sex and the City' isn't just that we live in Brooklyn; it's that these girls aren't trying to find their major career paths or life partners. They're just literally trying to get through the week and pay the rent. It's a really different time of life.
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I turned down a lot of films.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
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People associate girls with long blonde hair with the girls in 'Clueless' or 'Legally Blonde.' You can't be smart and educated and have an opinion because you are supposed to be stupid.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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When you hear 'Truth of Touch,' I believe you recognize that it is me; however it's not the typical Yanni album.
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Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
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I wanted to show girls it's not bad to be dark, that different is beautiful.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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Everyone is living for everyone else now. They're doing stuff so they can tell other people about it. I don't get all that social media stuff, I've always got other things I want to do - odd jobs around the house. No one wants to hear about that.
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The coverage of Islam in the media is becoming more sophisticated, and there is more access to knowledge.
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The thing that's different about 'Girls' and 'Sex and the City' isn't just that we live in Brooklyn; it's that these girls aren't trying to find their major career paths or life partners. They're just literally trying to get through the week and pay the rent. It's a really different time of life.
