Jenna Blum Quotes
My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
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I'm not a good loser. I get sick physically... I take it to heart. I hate it.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
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There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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I just feed off the energy of the audience.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get confused. We think we're the center of everything.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.
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Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.
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A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
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We are so aware of how silly our movies are as we're making them.
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I value my anonymity. I'm happy to come in on the tube or the train and watch other people reading 'Fifty Shades.'
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My dad died 11 years ago, I don't see much of my brothers, and I rarely speak to my mum. I don't hold a grudge, but being separated in those early years clearly had an impact. Our relationship didn't develop as it ought to.
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I was born in Scotland and have lived there all my life. I speak conversational Cantonese with my dad when I'm at home, and very basic Mandarin.
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My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.
