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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Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany.
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There are those who build careers and companies just out of being popular on Instagram, but there's nothing behind them.
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You think I'm deranged! How refreshing. Everyone here takes me so seriously, it's a wonderful change to be thought mentally deficient.
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Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.
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I love how my sport reaches out to people with the music and story lines, the glory of standing up for three or four minutes of tough, arduous, gravity-defying skating and all the stuff that goes with it.
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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.
