Sharon Kay Penman Quotes

There was this darkness about being from New Jersey.

New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.

I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too.

Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.

I'm from New Jersey, the Shore, and Asbury Park and all that goes with that. I wouldn't want to mess around with that. I like New Jersey. There are nice people here.

If you're from New Jersey, let people make all those bad jokes about our state. Don't let anyone know how great it is here. It's the best kept secret.

I was raised in New Jersey - Long Branch.

There's a directness and a feistiness to being from Jersey.

I'm from the dirty depths of New Jersey.

I grew up, a kid in New Jersey.

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.

I'm a girl from Jersey.

New Jersey was like home for me the first time I was there.

In New Jersey, you're able to live your life.

I could be anywhere in the country, and people will ask, 'Are you from Jersey?' I'm proud of that. We're a weird breed.

Heaven looks a lot like New Jersey.

Really I don't know anything other than Jersey. I like the dirtiness of it. Now I'm getting to see the world, and it's great, but it's not better than Jersey.

It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.

People only know what they see on TV.

I'm not trying to fall in love on the Jersey Shore. I'm just trying to hook up.

There's really barely any sex in [The Westworlds]. But there is a lot of nudity. And it was always described to me as being done in a way that was supposed to be kind of sterile and mannequin-like and dehumanizing.

The content that Jessica Nigri puts out, really displays cosplay in the wrong light.

There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.

There are more whipped guys on television than there were on the Amistad.

Let's be clear: all professions look bad in the movies. And there's a good reason for this. Movies don't portray career paths, they conscript interesting lifestyles to serve a plot. So lawyers are all unscrupulous and doctors are all uncaring. Psychiatrists are all crazy, and politicians are all corrupt. All cops are psychopaths, and all businessmen are crooks. Even moviemakers come off badly: directors are megalomaniacs, actors are spoiled brats. Since all occupations are portrayed negatively, why expect scientists to be treated differently?