Jennifer Pahlka Quotes
In high school, I was sort of friends with the geeks and friends with the socials and everything else and not solidly in one camp. I've always lived on the borders.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to her years.
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Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.
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As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.
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Working on 'Austin and Ally' has been an absolute dream! We literally have fun every single day! Whether it's scaring each other or singing together or just hanging out in each other's dressing rooms, the cast and I are super close! I feel really lucky to be with everyone on our set!
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How does a band like System of a Down get big?
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I find mediocrity hard. I find that whole area difficult. I'm a very passionate person; I care very much about what I do. I believe I give it a lot, so it's gotta be good; otherwise, what's the point?
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We're so divided as a world that we don't often have the opportunity to sit down and talk to people who are different to us. We're so ready to always be right that we sometimes forget it's OK to listen.
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I'm a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them.
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In high school, I was sort of friends with the geeks and friends with the socials and everything else and not solidly in one camp. I've always lived on the borders.
