Jenna Wortham Quotes
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
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After my primary school education, I started gathering little children by visiting parents to ask if they wanted somebody to care for their kids by teaching them the Bible. I have never attended any seminary school or Bible college in my life.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
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Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
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The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
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Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
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I like the fact that I can do stunts, but I don't think of myself as a stunt guy. Those guys are really good at what they do.
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I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.
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I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.
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As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world.
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Top knots are the easiest thing to create.
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Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world, and you are a candidate for martyrdom. Practice freedom of speech in Xi Jinping's China, and you can wind up in a cell.
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It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
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I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
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I've worked with just as many talented women as I have talented men, and I feel fortunate enough to have that great balance.
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The best break anybody ever gets is in bein' alive in the first place. An' you don't unnerstan' what a perfect deal it is until you realizes that you ain't gone be stuck with it forever, either.
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I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.
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You know, you kind of lose some self-confidence after having kids because you'll never be the way you were. But I feel good.
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I was an only child with a lot of time to kill. I suspect a lot of writers are only children, or only children become writers because it's a way of being alone.
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There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.
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Making space to deal with the psychological toll of racism is absolutely necessary.
