Jodi Kantor Quotes
I really thought I wanted to be a lawyer, but then I had an epiphany when I was in law school and dropped out. I'd always been a journalism junkie, but I'd never had confidence to think that I could actually edit or write the stories.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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Justice is revenge.
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As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!
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The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.
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I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
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In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
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I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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You never get every job you want.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.
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I don't have goals in life.
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Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song, and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self-congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
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Everyone should be respected by the law, and everyone should respect the law.
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The most I could hope for is to come and try and develop a character who is interesting, who is interesting to me, who is interesting to fans and who could contribute to the storytelling that is 'Law & Order: SVU.'
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I really thought I wanted to be a lawyer, but then I had an epiphany when I was in law school and dropped out. I'd always been a journalism junkie, but I'd never had confidence to think that I could actually edit or write the stories.
