Jenny Han Quotes
Teenage years are all about crushes: crushes so deep you wanted to inhabit the other person, be inside their skin, see the world through their eyes.
Quotes to Explore
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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Even if I tried to fill up the stadium in Ramat Gan, I don't think I could.
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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
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I look at Syracuse and I love the way that the coaches say they'll use me in their offense. I really like the family atmosphere there and I feel really comfortable there.
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The NHS is a national organisation, but it is best delivered locally.
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The faster you can get your ideas in contact with the real world, the faster you can discover what is broken with your idea.
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Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.
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The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense that the safety nets had been cut away, that each citizen walked upon the high wire of this, the real world. I longed not merely to travel through it, but to live in such a city.
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Teenage years are all about crushes: crushes so deep you wanted to inhabit the other person, be inside their skin, see the world through their eyes.
