Jonathan Kellerman Quotes
These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way.
Quotes to Explore
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I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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The demand that school finances be transferred away from local school districts to the state and/or federal government has been a long-time favorite of the educationist lobbies.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
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Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.
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If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.
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I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
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Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
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Feminism is universal. You can't just fight for one type of freedom or one type of female power. You know what? Muslim women want to cover up, and we have to fight for our right to do that, too.
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The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.
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Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.
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My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.
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Don't add people to your subscriber list just because they once wrote you a note. Or once answered a note you wrote to them. Don't put your address book into your newsletter database. Let your readers sign up.
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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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My imagination is closer to a child's imagination than to a grown-up's.
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On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.
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It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends.
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Kids need to open up to their parents. And parents should realize that when kids are pushing you away, that's the time to really step in.
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I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight.
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These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way.
