Jenn Proske Quotes
I find the roller-coaster ride of auditioning most challenging. It's always about putting yourself out there, being rejected, and then getting back out there and trying again.
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In this business, you get an opportunity, and you pounce on it.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy.
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In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
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I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
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I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
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I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.
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Influence is best measured not only by military hardware and GDP, but also by other people's perceptions that we, the United States, are using our power legitimately. That belief - that we are acting in the interests of the global commons and in accordance with the rule of law - is what the military would call a 'force multiplier.'
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If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing.
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I've always danced. I've always been around it.
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I feel most alive when I'm singing along to old gospel music.
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If I can keep losing myself - and finding parts of myself - in other people's writing and direction, then that's all I can really ask for. That's all I want, to keep losing myself.
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Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga.
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We are entertainers. We're trying to entertain people.
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Growing up, I realized as an actor I had to figure out how to use my platform in order to give back as well and use that spotlight to shine, or at least to balance that light and to try to shine light onto the other issues that were happening in the world.
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I find the roller-coaster ride of auditioning most challenging. It's always about putting yourself out there, being rejected, and then getting back out there and trying again.
