Jennifer A. Nielsen Quotes
I would love to be in public one day and see someone reading my book. I think that would be so ridiculously cool.
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I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.
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We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.
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Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery – just one!
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I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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I often say Policy Planning is very analogous to a venture capital firm. A venture capital firm sees an interesting idea and puts money behind it; in Policy Planning, we look for promising ideas and then put contacts and relationships behind it.
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It is such a crazy idea that maybe something that I wrote or something that I put on a record would affect people at all.
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In the Middle East in the summertime, to keep cool, a lot of people sleep on the rooftops.
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People don't like to follow pessimists.
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I would love to be in public one day and see someone reading my book. I think that would be so ridiculously cool.
