Jenny Han Quotes
The books you read as a young person are books that stay with you forever. I think that is the biggest privilege of writing for young people. You feel like you can help shape somebody.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.
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The brain sits snugly inside the skull, but it's not a completely flush fit - there is still a layer of fluid between bone and soft tissue that serves as a natural shock absorber. Some shocks, however, can't be absorbed, and when the head gets clobbered too hard, the brain can twist or torque or rattle around inside its skeletal casing.
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The only thing we know for sure about superiority in sports in the United States of America in the 20th century is that Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics teams he led stand alone as the ultimate winners.
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Women could never beat men physically. So we have to be stronger in other ways.
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For some reason there's this myth that creativity - especially in terms of creative writing - is a gift you either have, or you don't. So when people first start writing, if they write something that's not very good, or if they try and it's difficult, they go, "Oh, I guess I don't have it." That doesn't seem very fair, you have to try and you have to work at it. If we get scared of one bad poem and quit, that's not doing anybody any good.
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The books you read as a young person are books that stay with you forever. I think that is the biggest privilege of writing for young people. You feel like you can help shape somebody.
