Jennifer Beals Quotes
On service Giving feels good. It's a form of healing. Not just for you as an individual, but for everyone.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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I believe in forgiveness.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.
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You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
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Now, as a writer, the whole world is your nail polish display, and what's more, you can help yourself. A thrilling, colourful array of gorgeous human peculiarity revolves before your eyes, and you still can't quite believe it's all yours for the taking.
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I'm just going to go out there and do my best.
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It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.
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All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
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Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.
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On service Giving feels good. It's a form of healing. Not just for you as an individual, but for everyone.
