Jenna Wortham Quotes
I experimented with every kind of class possible - yoga, spin, Pilates, rowing - but it was all haphazard, cobbled together by trial and error.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.
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I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.
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The book that first made me want to be a writer is Flannery O'Connor's short story collection 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find.'
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I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.
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Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
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... let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a unity that is living.
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To continue to fight, not get frustrated, to stay together and find a way - I think that's important. I think good teams do that.
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I experimented with every kind of class possible - yoga, spin, Pilates, rowing - but it was all haphazard, cobbled together by trial and error.
