Jenny Han Quotes
I started writing my first book for young people when I was in college. I was only a couple of years out of my teens when I began; I felt closer to that experience than I did as an adult. But I've always been drawn to stories about young people.
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I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?
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I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I've to take time out to work on my albums because I'm passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.
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I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
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I've never been strong with my time-management skills.
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I'm an avid Instagram user, and I do it myself.
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Be current. Know and comment on current trends and news. Don't be the last one entering a conversation.
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I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful.
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Some people have called the book the 'bible of software engineering'. I would agree with that in one respect: that is, everybody quotes it, some people read it, and a few people go by it.
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People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they get married they know better.
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I started writing my first book for young people when I was in college. I was only a couple of years out of my teens when I began; I felt closer to that experience than I did as an adult. But I've always been drawn to stories about young people.
