Jenny Zhang Quotes

I hadn't ever worked with an 'editor' until I was 26 - although that could be partly chalked up to the MFA vs. NYC thing, where I came up through institutions that encouraged writers to write privately for a long, long time and not sully themselves with concerns about audience or the business side of writing.

Jenny Zhang

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Author Biography

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

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Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

Joe Wilson

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Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.

John Cusack

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How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it's private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business.

Robin Gibb

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I like to do on screen what I'm not in life. In life, I'm much more weak and insecure, and so then you know I like to play characters that are stronger than me.

Monica Bellucci

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I'm a huge gadget freak. I look on CNet literally every day to see what new gizmos are out there. I love technology. I'm constantly e-mailing. I've got the iPhone.

Jonathan Mostow

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Well I've also kind of noticed that, whatever energy that you put out, is kind of the energy that you receive. And so people are just really lovely and kind and soft spoken with me.

Dianna Agron

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My mother is gay. She was married to my dad up until I was 9. She was just like, 'I'm tired of this. I'm just going to be with who I want to be with.' So I've been raised by women, through my mom and also my aunt. My aunt is bi, and most of her partners have been women. I was always surrounded by a very strong tribe of people.

Ashleigh Murray

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I'm very proud of the fact that the women on 'The Americans' are written to be equally complex as the men.

Alison Wright

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Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.

Marlene Dietrich

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I have found a unique opportunity to distinguish myself and to learn my trade. I am a general officer in the army of the United States of America. My zeal in their cause and my frankness have won their trust.

Marquis de Lafayette

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For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.

James Thomson

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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Grantland Rice

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