Jenna Dewan Quotes
I love the creative process, of getting to create your own show or your own movie, whatever it is you want to do, and have the resources to try and make that happen.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.
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I was thrilled when I heard about the Time's Up campaign's legal defense fund for women who've experienced harassment and sexism. I'd been longing for this movement to extend beyond Hollywood.
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Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal;and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose'.
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What 'Short Term 12' did was it gave me the confidence to explore my intuition more. The healing process that came for me for making that movie and then sharing it with people - I was able to see, first hand, that movies can have a healing power and they can teach us things.
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For me, it's painful to make a movie. It's not my normal rhythm.
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I love the creative process, of getting to create your own show or your own movie, whatever it is you want to do, and have the resources to try and make that happen.
