Jennifer Beals Quotes
Speaking about same-sex marriage It’s about familiarity, and I think the only reason they’re uncomfortable with the notion of same-sex marriages is because they haven’t come into contact with gay and lesbian couples enough to understand that it’s about love-and that it is a civil right.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players.
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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In case you're wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no... people think so because I sound so good.
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My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know.
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I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
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I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.
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I don't want anything to get in the way of me and my singing. I want my mind as clear as possible.
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I never wanted to play a character that hated herself. I wanted people to know that those aren't the only roles for people like me, normal girls.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.
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Speaking about same-sex marriage It’s about familiarity, and I think the only reason they’re uncomfortable with the notion of same-sex marriages is because they haven’t come into contact with gay and lesbian couples enough to understand that it’s about love-and that it is a civil right.
