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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Grace can and does have a history.
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My thing is, I know kids cuss, they do their thing, but I tell my kids, 'Don't do it in earshot of any adults, or you're in trouble.'
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Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing 'The Bear.' I thought, 'What if I just stopped and listened?'
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I don't think that books are wondrous, magical things that come from nowhere. It's important that a book has clues about where and how it was written.
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A lot of women act like it's the easiest decision, and I'm just going to have a baby and put my life on hold and not be worried about it. Well, I was worried.
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I don't think I can ever write about young kids anymore. I completely shot my wad there.
