Jennifer Armintrout Quotes
The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
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With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.
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I think art, more than anything else, helps humans to synthesize emotion and to synthesize parts of ourselves, so therefore, as an artist, I feel a responsibility to try and facilitate that synthesis.
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Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?
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Studying acting has been personally enriching because it has taught me to take the time to imagine what someone else's life experience might be like. To look deeply at how our pasts and the circumstances of our early childhoods mold us as people.
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It's hard to get justice in the real world. It's possible in fiction.
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I gravitate much more toward realism, realism in the work that I do, but magical realism got me hooked on film. I think it was my first time realizing that there was something besides popcorn movies.
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The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.
