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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I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that.
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My buddy tells me a lot of interesting stories about what goes on in prison - it just makes my head spin about what they deal with on a day-to-day basis.
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They say shock therapy is good for some things, but it didn't do me any good. It was a pretty primitive treatment at the time - once they gave it to you, you couldn't remember how long you'd been there. It knocked me back for a long time. I thought I'd never write again.
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What are we doing in the world that we are denying people the right to an open education? And we are denying it by making education something you have to pay for so drastically. How are people supposed to afford this?
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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.
