Jenna Boyd Quotes
I really want to be like my mom in some ways, because I already take a lot after her already. I really like the way she treats us and disciplines us, and I think that she's just great because of how she's balanced us and all of that.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don't want to be anybody's role model.
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Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.
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What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.
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Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.
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I think I'm a very intuitive actress.
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God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.
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I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things.
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When the facts of history are written Haile Selassie of Abyssinia will go down as a great coward who ran away from his country to save his skin and left the millions of his countrymen to struggle through a terrible war that he brought upon them because of his political ignorance and his racial disloyalty.
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In a sense, I revolutionized the operatic scene because I proved you can make a great international career without the Metropolitan. I'm the only singer who's done that, and I'm proud of that, so it's all worked out for the best.
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One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
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I really want to be like my mom in some ways, because I already take a lot after her already. I really like the way she treats us and disciplines us, and I think that she's just great because of how she's balanced us and all of that.
