Jenny Zhang Quotes
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I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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I have been fortunate that publications like the 'New York Times' and 'The Wall Street Journal' have allowed me to share some of my opinions with a wider audience.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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I drank too much, only champagne.
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I think I'll always flutter all over. I'd like to live in different parts of the world - I'd love to live in Tuscany for a few months.
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Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.
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In these English farms, if anywhere, one might see life steadily and see it whole, group in one vision its transitoriness and its eternal youth, connect - connect without bitterness until all men are brothers.
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When we were shooting the movie, and of course in the editing room we had to make choices, but the shots fall almost exactly where we thought they would. They're not about content; they're never meant to be about what just happened. There's that weird phenomenon where the more you like a movie the more your mind wanders and goes all over the place.
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In my mind, scatological writing is a core of the English canon.