Jennifer Beals Quotes
About compassion You can have the ‘golden rule’-do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step farther-where you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it.
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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.
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In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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When you have an iPad and 75 books on it, it's so easy to go, 'I'm bored, I'm just going to read something else.'
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We are a typical working class northern family, big into our football... no one in the family was into acting. But I remember seeing a panto when I was about six and thinking, 'Yeah... I wouldn't mind doing that.'
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
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A church of dialogue in the contemporary world... a church, taking on the mission of Jesus, which is in the world not to judge humanity, but to love it and to save it.
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I got more money than I can spend now.
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You can get good performances in quite sizable roles from people who have never been in front of a camera, people who maybe have never been in front of a movie theater.
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I really enjoy doing charity, for a good cause, it's like the least I can do, I really enjoy that stuff. I enjoy giving back.
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About compassion You can have the ‘golden rule’-do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step farther-where you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it.
