Jenny Han Quotes

Food is a way to explore culture and ground the story in a specific time and place. I still remember the meals and snacks from my first novel, 'Shug': pork chops and applesauce and Coca-Cola and peanuts, which are very Southern. When a character has roots elsewhere, food is a way to connect with home and another culture.

Jenny Han

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The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

Johann Georg Hamann

WeaknessFlawsReasonEverythingSee

My first break wasn't professional - I was in 'The Sound of Music' when I was five. I played Gretel, the youngest one, because that was what kind of took off for me in terms of loving acting.

Megan Park

MusicMeLovingActingProfessional

She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens.

Michael Arlen

WorstSheOnlyHappensMakes

I would have to say News Radio is the highlight of my career. I love the character so much.

Stephen Root

LoveCharacterCareerNewsSayMuch

First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic. There's nobody that is wealthy saying, let's go get the people that aren't. First of all, there's no versus. He's creating a false class warfare in a country where there is no class structure.

Jon Lovitz

PeopleSayingCountryCreatingGo

I started cooking from watching my mom. My mother was a really, really great cook.

Coolio

MotherGreatCookingMomWatching

I've always loved those portraits that Alfred Stieglitz did of Georgia O'Keeffe over several years, which really convey the idea that there's not one image that can capture a woman, because we're changing all the time.

Christy Turlington

TimeWomanLovedCaptureOverImage

Civics isn't something where you learned - learn it for a couple weeks in high school; it is who we are. Americans defined themselves by their Constitution. That is what creates us. This is our heritage, and you must know our heritage.

Anthony Kennedy

SchoolConstitutionHigh SchoolLearn

Art has absolutely changed my life.

Peter Weller

LifeArtMy LifeAbsolutelyChanged

What interested me was the story of Bennet Omalu. You hear his narrative: Immigrant from Nigeria, landing in Pittsburgh, only to learn and tell the truth about this most American - and sacrosanct - cultural institution: the NFL.

Peter Landesman

TruthMeStoryAmericanLearnYou

I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps.

Payne Stewart

MindWanderSometimesFocusedAware

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

Richard M. Nixon

MyselfDownResigningBrought

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