Jennifer Beals Quotes
The love scenes that worked, regardless of the director, were the ones where the actors weren't fearful. When somebody was fearful, you could see it right away. It takes you out of the story, and that's to be avoided at all costs.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.
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My father managed shopping malls when I was a kid, and my high school job was to dress up in an elf costume and take photos of kids sitting on Santa Claus's lap.
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There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.
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I love seeing people be successful! I love that. It's wonderful. There's enough room for everybody.
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The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
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When I'm wearing too-high heels and swaying my hips, I do that Sharon Stone kind of thing - she has the sexiest walk, a New York cool thing that throws you back.
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I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.
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I look on most religions as fear-based rather than love-based. I've drifted away from all that. Yes, I think I'm more spiritual. I just don't go and pretend every Saturday or Sunday that I'm in this wonderful club. I'm exploring.
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People react to 'District 9' and Die Antwoord on the same level.
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The bullying powers use different excuses to prevent transfer of science and technology and progress of the nations of our region.
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We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait. Democracy, civilization itself, is at stake. Within the next few years we must change the basic structure of our global community from the present anarchic system of war and ever more destructive weaponry to a new system governed by a democratic UN federation.
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The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a second life waiting, suffering can be endured- especially in other people. The natural environment can be used up. Enemies of the faith can be savaged and suicidal martyrdom praised.
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Our interests are very much aligned. Our attempts of cooperation are very much aligned.
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I was right then, I'm right now. I think time has proven me right.
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Satan can do only what the sovereign God allows him to do.
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You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
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What the SEAL teams do, what our training does, is it chips away the outer that layer and shows you what you're capable of and not capable of.
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The love scenes that worked, regardless of the director, were the ones where the actors weren't fearful. When somebody was fearful, you could see it right away. It takes you out of the story, and that's to be avoided at all costs.
