Jean Hanff Korelitz Quotes

My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and once someone actually hired a screenwriter to adapt one of my books - but it all came to nothing, so I tried not to get too excited when a Hollywood suitor came calling for 'Admission,' my fourth novel.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

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I've become a much better player, so I feel like my voice is heard and taken for what it's worth a little bit more.

Jimmy Butler

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So you don't speak English, you have no ID, you can't tell where you're from... that's suspicion, it's lower than probable cause. And then we have a right to call immigration and check you out.

Joe Arpaio

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Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow.

Andrew Motion

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So why don't nurses do home visits to Americans with acute conditions? Hospitals aren't paid for it.

Robert Reich

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The nature of the beast is that film is a director's medium. It's not a Tracy Letts play, it's a John Wells film. 'August: Osage County,' as a play, is done. Written. On the shelf. It'll be performed in its entirety for years.

Tracy Letts

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We conservatives don't have a corner on saying 'no'. We're just the ones who say it when it's the right thing to say.

Mitt Romney

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There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The list includes Bernard Shaw, the Webbs, H. G. Wells, and Andre Gide.

Luke Harding

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I'm a cowboy. I wear a hat. I drive a 4x4 Silverado diesel truck. I've got a farm.

Jason McCoy

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With each of those projects I wasn't thinking about how the layout would really affect the story I was working on - it wasn't the content that was affecting the layout, it was, how I wanted to draw at that point in time.

Chester Brown

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Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.

Chevy Chase

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So I started to learn guitar right away.

Piper Perabo

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I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cross the street, and if you'd crossed the street two minutes later, you'd have been hit by a car, but you'd never know it. I'm sure that kind of stuff happens all the time.

Seth MacFarlane

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