Jean Hanff Korelitz Quotes

Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

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I grew up in Indiana. My first four years of elementary were in the gym where Coach Wooden went to high school.

Steve Alford

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You have to prove that the Freberg way will sell their product better than if they just did straight advertising. Whenever I give a lecture or seminar, that's what I try to get across to people. I hear very few radio commercials that sound like I could have written them or that they got the idea.

Stan Freberg

PeopleAdvertisingBetterYouWay

I try to stop and take a 10-second break and ask myself before I do something: One, is this going to improve my life for my children, or two, will there be a potential for something to go wrong here?

Tom Sizemore

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Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.

Tom Brokaw

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I come from a long line of revolutionaries.

Joy Harjo

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Taking a shuttle or even paying for a taxi to a rental office that's a few miles away from the airport can mean a lower rate - 50 percent lower is common - for the same car, from the same company, for the same length of time. Many companies run free shuttles from some of the major airports.

Jean Chatzky

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You can be very honest without telling the truth, at least in art.

Jason Isbell

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Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of those odd moth-like creatures who seem to combine extreme discomfort with the spotlight with an unstoppable compulsion to leap into it.

Craig Brown

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Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

Bob Ehrlich

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It's never a matter of career decisions. I don't think in those terms. What matters is whether a role is interesting, if I will enjoy playing it, and if I'm confident I can do a good job.

Powers Boothe

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I'm always consciously trying to make what I feel is missing.

Pharrell Williams

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Storytelling has always been one of my great pleasures.

Rik Mayall

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