Jen Selinsky Quotes
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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We earned our dollars in a hard way;, nobody gave us a feast or gave it on a plate. We worked hard and we have innovated; we have made things in a better way at a cheaper rate and gave it to the people of India.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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I have a very short attention span.
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I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
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Agreements are always the product of time and place.
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When I was younger, of course I had people act inappropriately to me. I've had certain directors yell at me. But I didn't stand for it, and I didn't let it go far enough for it to be in any way abusive to me.
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I've always looked old for my age.
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Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.
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When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. I'll do something else.
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Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream create a new reality. The object really becomes another, because we turned it into another one. We manufacture realities.
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Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.
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A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one.
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I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities.
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The raw materials of story are the raw materials of all human cultures. Story deals with the same questions as theology, philosophy, psychology. It is concerned with polarities: love and hate, birth and death, joy and sorrow, loss and recovery.
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I have a lot of hang-ups in life with men. I'm not very trusting.
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The guardians of French pharmacies - the lab-coated salespeople - are busy, serious, and probably know more about your face than you do. Therefore, don't interrupt them, and if they ask you if they can help you, for God's sake, let them. They will not steer you wrong.
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Aside from my family, I have two great loves in my life: acting and the fight for social justice.
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Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.
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Putting miles in your training log is like putting money in the bank. You begin to draw interest on it immediately.
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Our government treats the LGBT community like second-class citizens.
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That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
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Write like there is no tomorrow so that others may read about today.
