Jenny Han Quotes
The feedback for 'P.S. I Still Love You' has been pretty amazing. To have written this story about this family with Asian-American characters and be so embraced is really incredible for me as a writer as well as a person of color.
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It's better to do a film that works.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.
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The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
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I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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As for the device we now call a TV or a cable box, I want it to be fast with a clean interface and seamlessly upgradeable to the latest software. I want it to be the primary source of all TV, not an ancillary device.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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Highly skilled immigrants are critical to innovation and are important contributors to economic growth in the United States.
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There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.
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I think what is nice about 'Elf,' and why it doesn't play as one long sketch, is that the character actually grows up during the course of the film. It's not just a character that you can keep checking in on and keep doing sketches about. It's a story. I'm pretty proud of how we told it.
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Earl Scruggs wears two finger picks and a thumb pick, and by alternating them, he can play about as fast as he wants. So it's this action. You know, you couldn't move one finger that fast, but all three, it's pretty easy, and it's kind of an incredible leap.
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When I was young, my mum was part of a brilliant puppet theatre that toured all over the world.
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The feedback for 'P.S. I Still Love You' has been pretty amazing. To have written this story about this family with Asian-American characters and be so embraced is really incredible for me as a writer as well as a person of color.
