Jen Selinsky Quotes

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Jen Selinsky

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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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Great
  • Literature

• 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.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • People
  • Way
  • Better

• It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Time
  • Business
  • Running

• I have a very short attention span.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Attention
  • Very
  • Short

• I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Wife
  • Child
  • Lucky

• Agreements are always the product of time and place.

  

  Larry Craig
  • Time
  • Always
  • Place

• 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.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • People
  • Me
  • Stand

• I've always looked old for my age.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Age
  • Always
  • Old

• Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Values
  • Employees
  • Cynical

• 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.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• 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.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Real
  • Dream
  • Reality

• Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Great
  • Happy
  • House

• A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one.

  

  Wallace Stevens

• I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities.

  

  Lewis Mumford

• 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.

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Death
  • Hate
  • Joy

• I have a lot of hang-ups in life with men. I'm not very trusting.

  

  Kimora Lee Simmons
  • Life
  • Men

• 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.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • God
  • Help
  • Serious

• Aside from my family, I have two great loves in my life: acting and the fight for social justice.

  

  Alan Rosenberg
  • Life
  • Great
  • Family

• Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them," said Mr. Sutton. "You show them the tiniest edge of your secret, but the rest you keep under wraps.

  

  E. Lockhart
  • People
  • Rest
  • Powerful

• I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.

  

  Jet Li
  • Strong
  • Culture
  • Deep

• We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs, and instead cultivating a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized tests.

  

  Darell Hammond
  • Children
  • Today
  • Sports

• Eh, it's not that attractive to have a plan. I know that if I ever feel that I need to make a funny movie, I’ll figure out how to write one. I’ll get it done. If I ever get some ambition, I’m gonna get some shit done.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Write
  • Figure Out
  • Funny movie

• Write like there is no tomorrow so that others may read about today.

  

  Jen Selinsky
  • Today
  • Write
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