Jenny Han Quotes
I like to read non-fiction on my e-reader, but as for fiction, I usually like to have a copy to keep at home.
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
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I have my dad's shape. No booty.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.
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'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?
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My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park.
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I don't really like to put stuff in a box as far as genre-specific.
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
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You only have so much money to shoot a movie with.
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I like to read non-fiction on my e-reader, but as for fiction, I usually like to have a copy to keep at home.
