Janine Shepherd Quotes
We can think so much about life and take ourselves so seriously; I mean, I like to tell people, 'Don't take life too seriously' because you'll cloud the experience. That's what the meaning of life is to me - being able to enjoy the moment.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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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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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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Health care should be affordable for everyone.
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C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.
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Sharing is wonderful, but giving - I give, you take - often maintains the power status quo.
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Most every dental school has discount dental services.
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I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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We can think so much about life and take ourselves so seriously; I mean, I like to tell people, 'Don't take life too seriously' because you'll cloud the experience. That's what the meaning of life is to me - being able to enjoy the moment.
