Jen Selinsky Quotes
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One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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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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You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire.
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You must set down all the rules to your cat at the beginning of your relationship. You cannot add rules as you go along. Once these rules are set, you must never, under any circumstances, break any of them. Dare to break a rule, and you will never live it down. Trust me.
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In the age of cellphone cameras, everybody thinks of themselves as a tracker.
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The most dangerous negotiation is the one you don't know you're in.
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I am guaranteeing you that if you see my byline on a story, it's going to be the cleanest story you've ever read.
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Write like there is no tomorrow so that others may read about today.
