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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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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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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The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.
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Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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It's because films like 'Selma' are so rarely made that we end up putting them under the microscope. One, maybe two, a year. As a white person, you don't have that. You have the gamut. No one says to Oliver Stone, 'Another film about Vietnam? White characters again?'
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Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.
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I do a lot of working out, but I haven't been kicking for a while, so one time I was rehearsing a spinning roundhouse and darned near threw out my leg.
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I had innumerable visions at that time c. 1903; wherever I looked, Nature was alive, the sky, the clouds, on every stone and among the branches of the trees, everywhere my creatures stirred and lived their still or wild, lively lives, arousing my excitement and crying out to be painted.
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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.
