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.Jennifer Konner
Quotes to Explore
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I turned down a lot of films.
Francesca Annis -
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.
Octavia Spencer -
You have to find out how to become the character.
Kara Hayward -
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.
Dan Gilbert -
If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
Ralph Fiennes -
Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
Ira Glass
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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.
Ibrahim Babangida -
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.
Katee Sackhoff -
I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
Victoria Pendleton -
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Baruch Spinoza -
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.
L. E. Modesitt -
I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
Kailash Satyarthi
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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.
Dan Marino -
A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
Mal Peet -
When you hear 'Truth of Touch,' I believe you recognize that it is me; however it's not the typical Yanni album.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
Samuel Johnson -
Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
Victor Hugo -
Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.
Nancy Gibbs
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'It would please me your not being obsequious. That is a trait of marketplace people who are selling shoddy goods. I am sure to prefer endless, stupid questions to that.''Ob...obseek...?''Obsequious. Flattering with oiliness. It is not liked by me. In Yiqanuc we say: ‘Send the man with the oily tongue to go and lick the snowshoes.’'
Tad Williams -
I've written under the radar for quite some time, and I always looked at editing as writing.
Christopher Rouse -
The ventures that keep things light and fun, easy to understand, that have a compelling story, a sexy retail product, will have an easier time getting people to rally around them and contribute. A start-up doing something that's difficult to communicate or doesn't offer any kind of retail product will have a tougher go at it.
Jessica Jackley -
Peace comes through strength, not through retreat.
Kevin McCarthy -
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.
Jennifer Konner