Jean Hanff Korelitz Quotes

I'm not in a position to tell anyone anything about how to live his or her life, but I think it's worth noting that no one can lie to us as effectively as we can lie to ourselves. We know exactly what to say! And I do think that women, even extremely smart women, can be very, very vulnerable to men.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

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I never control a film. The film controls me.

Jiang Wen

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In my family, if I talk back to my dad, I get in trouble.

Joel Courtney

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I think viewers realize that people are a lot more three-dimensional than TV has traditionally portrayed them, particularly in news.

Anderson Cooper

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I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry Thoreau as John Muir will continue to be read.

Robert Hass

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I once took the key off my girlfriend's key ring so that I could surprise her when she got home. So I did this whole romantic setup in our bedroom with flowers and rose petals. She was so mad when she got home, but then when she walked in, she was so surprised.

Trey Songz

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I'm inspired by people that are marginal. I'm excited by their resilience.

Mira Nair

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'LaFerrari' means 'the Ferrari.' The excellence. In this car, we put everything we are able to do. Our extreme technology, extreme experience, extreme capability. And this has been the first Ferrari totally designed in our design center.

Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Josh Billings

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I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets a bad rap; he's very misunderstood. He's a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.

Joni Mitchell

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Some of my favorite records growing up were Christmas albums. The ones I liked best were the albums that you could listen to from start to finish. You could put them on while you're decorating the tree or driving around looking at Christmas lights.

Chris Young

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I've had so many little ideas I've written down here and there. Some ideas I've got reams of notes for.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

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Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

William Shakespeare

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