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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I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
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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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Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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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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Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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If I were a young coach today, I would be extremely careful in selecting assistants.
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Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments.
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To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal.
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I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
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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.
