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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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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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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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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The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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As professional soccer players, we take our bodies to the extreme. We're the people at the gym that look like we're breaking the machines. Pushing our bodies to the limits is what makes us so strong and capable and Olympians. It's not an easy thing to consistently do over and over again to your body.
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Perhaps the spirit of the Everglades was most evident in the unseen, the hidden, the implied.
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Listen at me. The end is almost never far off any time at all!
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Marie Curie is my hero. Few people have accomplished something so rare - changing science. And as hard as that is, she had to do it against the tide of the culture at the time - the prejudice against her as a foreigner, because she was born in Poland and worked in France. And the prejudice against her as a woman.
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Good journalism is good business practice; good business supports great journalism.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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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.
