Jenny Han Quotes
I started writing stories at a young age, but not once did it occur to me that I could grow up to be a writer. Who could I look to? My favorite authors were Ann M. Martin and E.L. Konigsburg and Judy Blume, Beverly Cleary and Lois Lowry and Norma Klein. They were all white women, and they seemed so stately to me, so elegant. A whole world away.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, and I waited tables here three to four nights a week for several years while I was trying to support myself and my daughter and the day I got that acceptance at Harvard Law School was an unforgettable day.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.
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China just banned ICO fundraising. They did Silicon Valley and the U.S. a favor - now we get first dibs.
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What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.
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People now tell me it's a good thing I stayed away from teen films. Well, it wasn't my choice. I wasn't hired.
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I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.
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The world can no longer accept, the world can no longer accept that basic education is enough. Why do leaders accept that for children in developing countries, only basic literacy is sufficient, when their own children do homework in Algebra, Mathematics, Science and Physics?
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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.
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Persuading people through technology is the next social revolution. Facebook demonstrates just how powerful it will be.
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You never know what doors are going to open up and why they are going to open up. You've got to be ready to walk through them.
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Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time to furrow me with age, But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.
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I started writing stories at a young age, but not once did it occur to me that I could grow up to be a writer. Who could I look to? My favorite authors were Ann M. Martin and E.L. Konigsburg and Judy Blume, Beverly Cleary and Lois Lowry and Norma Klein. They were all white women, and they seemed so stately to me, so elegant. A whole world away.
