Jennifer Beals Quotes

Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.

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• There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.

  

  J. C. Ryle
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  • World
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• Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.

  

  Beatrice Wood
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  • Giving
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• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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  • Friends
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• I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.

  

  Parker Harris
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• I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
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• As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Truth

• Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
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  • Believe
  • Moral

• I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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  • Rock
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• Anormal day looks like, you know, shower, put on the same jeans, the same tattered Gucci loafers I got at the thrift store, white socks, and my t-shirt and my very beat-up Helmut Lang blazer. I'm in the exact same outfit every day.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
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• The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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  • You
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• I have done theatre, and I enjoy the process of smaller films a lot more. When I do such films, there are certain things which I get to do which are untapped. The scenes give me the liberty to play and mould the character in accordance to the director's mindset.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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• Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!

  

  Dada Vaswani
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  • Work
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• Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian.

  

  Laura Innes
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• I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'd already been banned from a couple churches for my jokes. So one day I woke up and decided it was time to start living for myself.

  

  Sam Kinison
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• Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.

  

  Rand Paul
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• I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
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  • Important

• When I came up in hip hop, there was no such thing as a Puerto Rican rapper doing hip hop for many mainstream people, so I was the ship, the captain, and the crew.

  

  Fat Joe
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  • Ship

• I look up to Mick Jagger because he's an amazing performer and he's such an individual. I respect him and admire him eternally.

  

  Victoria Justice
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  • Respect
  • Amazing

• The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its existence not suggest that economic adversity is the result of failures of individual character rather than the lingering after-effects of racial discrimination and a slave system that ceased to exist well over a century ago?

  

  David Horowitz
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  • America
  • Black

• Views online is a real weird and sticky subject. One view on a 30-second piece of content is not equivalent to one view on a 30 minute video. In my mind it's not quite the same thing.

  

  Freddie Wong
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  • Weird

• I love comedy, so you want to make them happy, make them laugh.

  

  Delta Burke
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• My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.

  

  Dorothy Hamill
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  • She
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• For eight-and-a-half years, I was just watching movies, and just staying in bed and just eating food and just, you know, being just miserable.

  

  Corey Haim
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  • Movies

• Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.

  

  Jennifer Beals
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