Jenny Zhang Quotes

'Sour Heart' is a collection of seven linked short stories narrated by young Chinese-American girls living in New York City in the '90s. It's exceptionally hard to describe what I've written without sounding delusional or boring, so I'll just say they are stories about growing up and the pleasures and agonies of having a family, a body, and a home.

Jenny Zhang

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language.

Johann Georg Hamann

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I don't ever think a day is a perfect day. There's always something.

Andrew Whitworth

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I probably would do over the Tom Cruise interview because I've thought of so many things I would have said in hindsight.

Matt Lauer

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Everybody goes through situations like this. A tipped ball, a shoe-string tackle on a third-down scramble by the quarterback where he has 40 yards to run.

Jeff Fisher

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If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

Amy Winehouse

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To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

Tony Robbins

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You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.

Tom Verlaine

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I think people take the word 'feminist' really seriously, and I think people are scared to use that word.

Rita Ora

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My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify, and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity.

Ruth Bernhard

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I spent a lot of time protecting myself. I mean, I've met a lot of extraordinary people over the years - and I just wish I had been able to open myself up to them more.

Diane Keaton

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He'd believe anything provided it's not in Holy Scripture.

Douglas Feaver

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I could be a housewife... I guess I've vacuumed a couple of times.

Debbie Harry

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