Jean Hanff Korelitz Quotes

I started thinking about what I've always been interested in: how people can't see things that are right in front of them. All you have to do is read the papers to see endless examples of smart people who can't see the nose on their faces.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

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SmartPeopleThinkingYouRightSee

In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests.

Max von Sydow

MeHollywoodCastVillainsPriests

I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.'

Robert M. Pirsig

FamousWantWriteWhereGetDid

If we had maintained a small, residual force in Iraq, I don't think the Islamic State would have risen to power as it has.

Tom Cotton

PowerSmallThinkForceWouldState

If somebody says they are going to do something - and then later they don't - it affects me a lot, and I lose confidence in them.

Royston Drenthe

ConfidenceMeLoseSomethingGoing

We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving in the right direction.

Martin O'Malley

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When I was a practising lawyer in the family court, there were too many judges who, when you left their courtroom, you didn't know whether you'd won or whether you'd lost.

Judy Sheindlin

FamilyLawyerYouLostKnowJudges

You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you're stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, 'Hey, you're great! What's your name again?'

Dick Cavett

GreatTimeNameLongYouLong Time

Talent! There's no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous hard work in the right way.

Winslow Homer

WorkHard WorkTalentDoingNothing

To reduce gaps between men and women, we will need to change the way people think, behave, and relate to each other.

Winnie Byanyima

ChangeWomenMenPeopleThinkWay

I use Bogner amps and custom-designed Schecter guitars with Seymour Duncan Invader pickups. I beef up my tone with a Boss CS- 3 Compression Sustainer. It's kinda like my secret weapon.

Synyster Gates

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I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it.

Todd Barry

KnowledgePeopleThoughtSomeoneMay

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Timothy Noah

BestCommunismAmericanDefeatWay

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