Jennifer Beals Quotes
About the end of the The L Word Everything has its cycle. I think it’s appropriate for us to be ending now. But the beauty of storytelling, and the beauty of film and television is that it continues on.
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Psychiatry causes so much death.
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Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
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I always drive like a madman.
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My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.
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I've been fighting amidst a lot of opposition from both Hillary Clinton as well as some Republicans who wanted to send arms to the allies of ISIS. ISIS rides around in a billion dollars worth of U.S. Humvees. It's a disgrace. We've got to stop - we shouldn't fund our enemies, for goodness sakes.
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I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.
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Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.
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That's one of the reasons why 'Lost' has to end: because we can't sit around and envision, 'What is the flashback for Jack in year nine?' It doesn't realistically exist.
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Remember the diner in 'Happy Days?' I do want to do a show like that. But an updated version.
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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
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I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.
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The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices.
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You see people you identify with, and you take pieces of people you like and shape who you are. Like, I sound just like my dad. But that's literally my vocal chords. I can't sound like anything else... I sound like him, but I act like myself.
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We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds.
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Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.
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Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. It can be argued that peace and happiness comes from the subjective internalised perspective of realizing things could be worse and being grateful they aren't. The alternative view that peace and happiness comes from the objective external perspective of having more and better things than at present, while important for growth, can be a never-ending source of jealousy, dissatisfaction and disappointment. A balance of the two, where people are grateful for what they have while striving for more seems the best blended perspective.
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I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
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Nothing is all good or all bad, nothing is black or white, everything is just messy and human and difficult.
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Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.
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About the end of the The L Word Everything has its cycle. I think it’s appropriate for us to be ending now. But the beauty of storytelling, and the beauty of film and television is that it continues on.
