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Jenny Downham Quotes

I never plan a structure. I like surprises. I'm quite disciplined and sit at my desk every day and just write.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: 1964

Topics

Day Plan Every Day Desk Never Write

White folks, no matter how well-meaning or open-minded, have no true idea what it's like to be black in America. That's not a slam against white people or an accusation of latent bigotry. But the fact is that we all live in an Anglo-dominated society.

Live People Society Black America

I didn't touch a guitar until I was 20.

Guitar Touch Until

Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.

Business Day School Guilt Go Three

On a regular basis, to appease White House or campaign staffs, Secret Service officials order agents to ignore basic security rules and let people into events without being put through a magnetometer or metal detector.

Service People Ignore Rules Security

That's one of those things about being a computer science major: Valentine's Day is just another day.

Science Valentine's Day Day Things

Movies are movies, television is television.

Television Movies

I love doing comedy, and I don't get a chance to much. I get to play lots of serious people, and killers, and people with a lot of... sheriffs. Good people and bad people, but lots of drama, and to get a chance to be genuinely silly is a great treat for me.

Love Good Great People Me Treat

I think that theater is a unique way to communicate with people as they gather together with other people they may not even know. It creates a sense of shared community for the time of the performance that hopefully carries over into other aspects of the audience's life because they have shared this experience together.

Life Community Time Experience Think

The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing.

Amazing Improv Pretty Babe Ruth He

You don't want to be in a relationship with someone who's scared of you.

Relationship Someone You Want Scared

When you're feeling down, sad, lonely, negative, you don't want to take care of yourself - and the weight problem and the diabetic problem and the heart attack and stroke problems and high cholesterol set in.

Richard Simmons

Heart Sad Yourself Negative Problems

Wherever women succeed, businesses will succeed.

Women Succeed Will Wherever

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