Jenny Zhang Quotes
I don't think I can ever write about young kids anymore. I completely shot my wad there.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like to be compared to a filthy writer.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
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If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there.
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I tend to stay away from the comics.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.
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I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.
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Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
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Writing has never been that simple for me.
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Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. You're the only who start with nothing except what's up here. You do that. It's really hard I think, acting is not.
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There were evictions that I saw that I know I'll never forget. In one case, the sheriff and the movers came up on a house full of children. The mom had passed away, and the children had just gone on living there. And the sheriff executed the eviction order - moved the kids' stuff out on the street on a cold, rainy day.
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To all the young kids of color - and not so young - people who want to use their voices, who are thinking, 'This seems difficult because I don't see myself out there,' I tell you, you must be persistent because we need you. We need you so, so badly.
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So, not only am I panicking over the weekend if I need to know my lines, but also if can I get the kids to the zoo. Can I even go to church? I was asking for certain things that would allow me to plan my life a little better.
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I don't think I can ever write about young kids anymore. I completely shot my wad there.
