Jodi Kantor Quotes
When you work on a story like the Weinstein investigation, every other non-critical part of your life disappears. For months and months and months, my life basically consisted of my work and my kids, my work and my kids.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
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Cricket is very simple... you play till you can sustain.
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All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.
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Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.
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Try to imagine a character like Batman whose whole life has been about fighting crime, whose whole existence and identity is his war against criminals, and he wakes up one morning to discover there are no criminals. What happens to him?
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I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings.
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One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life.
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When you work on a story like the Weinstein investigation, every other non-critical part of your life disappears. For months and months and months, my life basically consisted of my work and my kids, my work and my kids.
