Jenny Zhang Quotes

'Alphabet' by the late Danish poet Inger Christensen. It's a book-length abecedarian poem. It's an activist text but also a portal to wonder.

Jenny Zhang

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: chinese
  • Birth: June 22, 1987

Topics

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As a radio DJ, I was on WRIN-WLQI. And even when I repeat it, it's horrifying. My morning sign-on, because it was in Rensselaer, Indiana, it'd be, 'You're on the air with Jim O'Heir in Rensselaer.' Ugh, oh my God, pathetic.

Jim O'Heir

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I don't think you ever love anything as passionately as you do when you're a teen. You remember the books you read as a young person your whole life. I feel so lucky to write for young adults.

Jenny Han

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Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better.

Andrea Bocelli

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I'm not a huge TV person. I don't like having the noise when I'm doing other things unless I'm really lonely, and then I turn the TV on. But I do like to sit down and watch TV in the evenings.

Andie MacDowell

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Man, I have so many names that everybody calls me something different. Some people call me Drew, some people call me Mayer, some people call me Haircut.

Mayer Hawthorne

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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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From my point of view, humour and irony include tragedy; they're two sides of the same coin.

Maurizio Cattelan

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Basically, independent film doesn't exist anymore. It does if you have two or three stars in your film, but it's just very difficult.

Steven Shainberg

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Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

Tom McCall

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Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.

Robert T. Bakker

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To look and feel your best, it's essential to work out, eat well, and make sure that you are also drinking plenty of water and getting enough sleep.

Mary Helen Bowers

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We're told that to be fly, you gotta have a fly car, the rims on your wheels, the fly jewels, and that to work a regular job and make legal money is uncool.

Missy Elliott

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