Jenny Han Quotes
When you handwrite something, you're writing your most raw, pure thoughts. If you want to change it, then you have to mark it out, and people can see you laboring over that thought. I think even the act of hand, pen, and paper is much more intimate than with a computer screen.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
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Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?
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Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
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I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.
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I've always found the rain very calming.
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Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.
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Sufficiently rich to satisfy all my desires and the reasonable desires of all those about me.
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You have this idea that you’d better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous. And then you realize, no, actually if you take a break people might be more interested in you.
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Freedom is nothing but the distance between the hunter and the hunted.
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When you handwrite something, you're writing your most raw, pure thoughts. If you want to change it, then you have to mark it out, and people can see you laboring over that thought. I think even the act of hand, pen, and paper is much more intimate than with a computer screen.
