Jenna Boyd Quotes
I am a competitive figure skater. I've been doing that for the same amount of time I've been doing acting. Ever since I was two.
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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'Habibi' is a complex and unapologetic work of fantasy - no idle undertaking for readers of any faith or no faith at all, but one well worth the trouble.
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I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.
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There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
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My number one goal is to take over the music business and run a really great record company.
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Be the kind of person you want to be with... If you don't like the people in your life, you are the one who has to change, not them.
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Don't sacrifice alone time with your spouse just because the kids seem needy. A united front requires adult time alone, so put it in the calendar and make it a priority. A house cannot stand on a shaky foundation.
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I'm a "what you see is what you get" kind of guy. I don't have any time to be showing anybody any bag of tricks.
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If the passion for truthfulness is merely controlled and stilled without being satisfied, it will kill the activities it is supposed to support. This may be one of the reasons why, at the present time, the study of the humanities runs a risk of sliding from professional seriousness, through professionalization, to a finally disenchanted careerism.
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I am a competitive figure skater. I've been doing that for the same amount of time I've been doing acting. Ever since I was two.
