Jenny Han Quotes
Whenever I was trying to get over a boy, I would write him a really long, wrought letter - but never mail it.
Quotes to Explore
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Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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It's been a long slog back, and we've still got a long way to go.
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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Making music is fantastic.
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
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The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues.
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Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
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When I went to college, I met a new group of friends and looked back on my high-school experience and realized how much time I had wasted on trying to make myself something I wasn't.
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Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.
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Whenever I was trying to get over a boy, I would write him a really long, wrought letter - but never mail it.
