Jeanne Tripplehorn Quotes

The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

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• Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

  

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• For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.

  

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• The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

  

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• Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

  

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• Women love a self-confident bald man.

  

  Larry David
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• Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.

  

  Facundo Pieres
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• The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.

  

  Sally Ride
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• Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.

  

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• I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

  

  Utada Hikaru
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• What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'

  

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• I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.

  

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• I know actors who have had to turn down good roles because they just don't pay enough. It's hard.

  

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• The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?

  

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• I grew up with the great Sir Laurence Olivier, and I think it's fair to say that a lot of actors of my age were influenced by his very individual vocal delivery. He was a showman who would always play to the gallery.

  

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• Often I choose characters who express not my best self, but the sides of me I haven't developed or haven't expressed.

  

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• If anyone can crack the publicity nut and figure out how to not come across hammy and contrived, I'd love to talk to them.

  

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• An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

  

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• I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

  

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• What use was it to argue with a little idiot like this? Indeed, peasants never do argue; they use abuse.

  

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• Think about it: whether your child is tiny or college-age or anywhere in between, verbal put-downs are a subtle but very real form of child abuse.

  

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• Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

  

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• The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists.

  

  Jeanne Tripplehorn
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