Janet Montgomery Quotes
I'm not a reality TV star. I pride myself on witnessing, watching people, studying people, and being able to recreate that and create a human being.
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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If you have debt, you have to worry about it. I would challenge each of you to try to be debt-free.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
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People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.
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People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.
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Immigration enthusiasts are so hysterical.
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I think of film when I paint. Even the luminosity that I always keep working for is really about film. But my idea is not to paint paintings that will decorate somebody's house.
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I'm not a reality TV star. I pride myself on witnessing, watching people, studying people, and being able to recreate that and create a human being.
