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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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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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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I was so irritated that people in Denmark considered me to be this serious guy who only did dramatic roles.
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.
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If you're a minority party that doesn't control any branch of government, you're more likely to be ignored.
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The flames of freedom which were lighted across this great land of ours in Thomas Jefferson's day have continued to burn with an intense and magnetic light for nearly 200 years. They have been fed by the spiritual fuel which abounds only in a land where an abiding faith in God and recognition of Him as the true Author of Liberty prevail.
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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.
