Jenna Wortham Quotes
The celebrated film critic Pauline Kael once wrote that movies function as escape pods, portals to parallel universes that can be radically different from emotional norms and societal conditioning of our own. What she meant was they parceled out freedom, allowing viewers to lose their selves in an effort to find greater connection to the self.
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.
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God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
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I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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Dogs don't got the problems of people. Dogs can be happy any old time.
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Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
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When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the trees and the water and the earth. And nothing lives for you, except the long deep bitter want. And this is what everyone feels from birth to death.
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I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.
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People say, 'You have inspired me, you've given me courage...' They've gone so far as to say, 'You've changed my life!' And I would come back and say to my husband, 'I can't understand it - what kind of poor little life did she have if I had to come and change it?'
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The celebrated film critic Pauline Kael once wrote that movies function as escape pods, portals to parallel universes that can be radically different from emotional norms and societal conditioning of our own. What she meant was they parceled out freedom, allowing viewers to lose their selves in an effort to find greater connection to the self.
