Jennifer Beals Quotes
What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
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Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to bribe businesses in another state to move? Which then causes the target state to use taxpayer dollars to try to bribe the businesses to stay.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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I feel like Nashville has watched me grow up in front of them, which is cool, but it kind of sucks at the same time because you get pigeonholed, like, 'Oh, she's the girl with the long hair that wears fairy dresses.' That was me at one point because I was new and I was young. But we all grow up.
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
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We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
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I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole.
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If I fell into one relationship after another with men who were either emotionally tuned out and unavailable or hotheaded and controlling, or both, it was because I was lacking in good sense about men.
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I have high expectations of my audience, and in general, I would say they've met that.
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I have employees that are, you know, other types of diversity, coming to me and saying 'Well, why aren't we focused on these other areas as well?' and I said yes, we should focus them, but, you know, the phrase we use internally is, 'If everything is important, then nothing is important.'
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Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers, whereas a film's final cut vaporizes every other way it might have been made.
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It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.
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Trust me: I've been travelling, making movies, and spending the remainder of my time at home.
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What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.
