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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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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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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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 can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.
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I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
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Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.
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It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that's rarely the case.
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Schön war ich auch, und das war mein Verderben.
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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.
