Cherry Jones Quotes
After 30 years in the theater, I'm used to having a great amount of control over what I do. But with '24', you place your character's life in the writers' hands, and you have no idea what's going to happen until you're sent the next pages.
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I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.
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As an HR Manager, you don't have to build a top-down perks program. You decide how much you want to invest in your employees, and then you give your employees the control to build a custom perk package for themselves.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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It's a joy to be up close to Derek Jacobi's work. Alas, we haven't worked very much, over the years, since we were at university together, but I don't think I've missed many of his great shows and performances.
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The first question American college kids asked me was, 'What state is Kuwait in?' They thought Kuwait was in America.
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I think a lot of drama, nowadays, is character-based and development-based, but 'True Blood' is very plot-oriented.
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Certainly, you can't participate in such a momentous program and not have the reminders of it have an effect on your life. What a wonderful gift for a person to receive.
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After 30 years in the theater, I'm used to having a great amount of control over what I do. But with '24', you place your character's life in the writers' hands, and you have no idea what's going to happen until you're sent the next pages.
