Jenny Han Quotes

I always think about race as a part of one's identity, not the whole of one's identity. You don't want it to be the defining characteristic of a character. There has to be more.

Jenny Han

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I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.

Jennifer Lopez

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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

Ambrose Bierce

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Napoleon's plan was for his army to arrive in Egypt not as conquerors but liberators. Landing in Aboukir Bay on July 1, 1798, the French captured Alexandria the next day, overcoming the surprised Mamelukes - the despotic local rulers - with a combination of modern artillery and infantry tactics.

Tom Reiss

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Journalists know that often you don't grab stories, they grab you.

Mary Pilon

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Never made a million dollars from any of my 78 movies. People thought I had this fortune, which I never had.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

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I grew very skeptical of certain kind of Jewish separatism in my youth. I mean, I saw the Jewish community was always with each other; they didn't trust anybody outside. You'd bring someone home, and the first question was, 'Are they Jewish, are they not Jewish?'

Judith Butler

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As it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not.

Jose Padilha

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I'm very drawn to the way in which a life lived can be an art of sorts or a failed art, and a life-lived-told can be art as well.

David Shields

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I accidentally saw David Byrne's last two songs in Prospect Park at a free concert because I came out of a movie late, and he was still playing.

Christopher McCulloch

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Kids don't talk like adults, but kids on the spectrum don't necessarily fall into the same patterns of speaking or have the same interests as other kids their age.

Claire Scovell LaZebnik

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An actor is only a part of the film, not the whole, and very often, he is moulded by the director. That is why a good director can make so much difference to a film.

Anupam Kher

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Do as much theatre as you can while you're at school.

Phyllida Lloyd

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