Jenna McCarthy Quotes
Women tell stories; men want answers. Guys get impatient when we drone on forever; we get frustrated when they tune out.
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I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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Cultists do not want to admit they have been manipulated by charisma. Nigerian money scheme victims do not want to accept that they had been swindled. To accept those realities is to accept their own faults. Denial of our own weaknesses is something we all suffer from time to time.
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I'm desperate to start a career in music.
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I don't see people. I don't see men and women at all. When I see them, I see... their mothers and fathers. I see how old they are inside. Like when I look at the president, or anybody in a record company, or a store owner, I may see a little boy behind the counter with the face of an old man. And that's who I talk to.
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The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.
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I always believed in my characters. I lived them.
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Women tell stories; men want answers. Guys get impatient when we drone on forever; we get frustrated when they tune out.
