Jenny Zhang Quotes
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When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.
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Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
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I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.
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Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the extra tutoring that wealthier students enjoy. To address these unjust disparities, we need an early education revolution.
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I don't believe in God.
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I think any time people behave in a way that's truly them, then they'll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to copy others.
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A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.
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The last thing we need is women on TV hating each other.
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But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.
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We have a rich tradition here in the United States of great decathletes, which is amazing 'cause we have absolutely no program to develop these guys. Zero. There's nothing. They do it on their own, just like I did back in '76.
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It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.
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Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.
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I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.
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A million dollars in the presidential election is a spit in the ocean. It's not a lot of money.
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I gave up writing for seven years (very biblical) and picked it up again, still clueless and still seeking the exotic, when I was twenty-one.
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My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, where they are safe.
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Marriage is a really scary thing. I'm excited about it. I know it's not a mistake, it's the absolute right thing to do. I'm really happy about it. I really, really love my fiancee. We're good friends and I think it's going to work. But that's just the point - it's going to take work. It does make me feel vulnerable to be like, wow, I'm committed to this person for the rest of my life.
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I think that everything should be a stepping stone for something bigger and better and if there is something bigger then why not go on after it?
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I'd behave savagely if I had access to Bjoerk's closet.
