"If you go to a network and say, "I wanna do prison stories about black women and Latino women and old women," you're not gonna make a sale. But, if you've got this blonde girl going to prison, you can get in there, and then you can tell all the stories. I just thought it was a terrific gateway drug into all the things I wanted to get into."

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Source : Source: collider.com

Jenji Kohan

#Girl Quotes #Drug Quotes #Black Quotes

“I have always regarded global development as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. Not to be simplified as a struggle between Jesus and Satan, since I do not consider that the process is restricted to our own sphere of culture.”

Source : Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.
“The Big Bang banged, and for some reason weâ€™re here. And thatâ€™s astonishing. And that we can understand that, thatâ€™s the most astonishing.”
“Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.”
“Jesus was born again in the pit of hell. .. The church started when Jesus was born again in the gates of hell.”
“I don't think I've ever done anything that's completely the same, yet.”
“Life is like waiting in line at the grocery store. You wait, you slowly move forward, you pay the price, then you exit unsatisfied and broke.”
“Watching my father plan and strategize for the resistance has taught me about trust.â€ She leaned forward. â€œPersonal trust is very different from political trust, my lady. The first thrives on faith. The second requires proof, whether it be upfront or covert.â€ Awkwardly, she patted my hand. â€œHis Majesty has always been a powerful man. Perhaps he has never had to distinguish between the two.”

Source : Alison Goodman (2011). “Eona”, p.143, Penguin
“Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.”

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