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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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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There are times when I need to dig up the diagram for a type of satellite dish, for instance, but I just can't seem to phrase this need correctly. As a result, I'm inundated by advertising for satellite television and people's online customer reviews of such services when, in fact, I was only trying to figure out what a certain component is called.
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As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.
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I traveled with then-Senator Obama to Israel in 2008. I will never forget our time in the holy city of Jerusalem and following behind him as he approached the Western Wall - and even in the dark hours of that very early morning, it was a place bustling with energy afforded by one's faith.
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One of my biggest influences of all time would probably be one of my soccer coaches, Coach Darlington, from high school. He was always trying to get me to push myself really hard. No excuses. I always hated him, but it paid off. I think that's what life is all about... when you push through the hard stuff and it pays off.
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We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there "is" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action.
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My life has been a magnificent indulgence.
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In high school, girls started wearing high-waisted pants with their shirts tucked into them. I don't get what that's about.
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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.
