Cherry Jones Quotes
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.
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Never count on the crowd to take care of you.
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
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When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.
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It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
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Great scientific contributions have been techniques.
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Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.
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We know the fans love us to death, and the people that hear out music love our music.
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If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a director will say to me, 'I don't think this is a scene where your character cries.' And all I can say is, good luck with that!
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'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.
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I was falsely arrested twice, slandered and defamed.
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Do not join encounter groups. If you enjoy being made to feel inadequate, call your mother.
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There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you.
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Mother Earth is hurting. And she needs a generation of thoughtful, caring and active kids like all of you to protect her for the future.
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
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Fearful concatenation of circumstances.
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I never go to the movies when I'm doing a play.
