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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'House of Cards' opened some doors. I've been able to tackle some diverse stories and characters.
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African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.
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I'm not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It's just I don't believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.
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Katie Couric is one of my favorite people.
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I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way home.
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Writing is just always hard for me. It always feels like drawing blood. It's never particularly easy.
