Jenny Han Quotes
Writing is just always hard for me. It always feels like drawing blood. It's never particularly easy.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.
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I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of the 'New York Times' where I wrote 'The Border Guard' in the margin.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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They pollute. It's not because morally they have a problem, but more because the mechanism now is rewarding those who cut corners to save cost.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having read.
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I started to let go and seeing that there are no rules.
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My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!
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Fragments of the natural method must be sought with the greatest care. This is the first and last desideratum among botanists. Nature makes no jumps. All taxa show relationships on all sides like the countries on a map of the world.
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Writing is just always hard for me. It always feels like drawing blood. It's never particularly easy.
