Jennifer Beals Quotes
On handling stress When you start projecting on the future-'Oh my God, I gotta do this and I’m not there yet'-well, of course you’re not there yet because you’re here now. That time will come…I try to stay in the moment as much as I can and find whatever joy I can in that moment, no matter what it is. Then it doesn’t feel as stressful.
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Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
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I already have a lot of experience, but the best is yet to come.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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I certainly never saw myself as posh.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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I'm an outsider.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'
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Because of the fact I look a lot younger than I really am, I think, I end up getting these girl-next-door roles. I mean, I'm not a Gemma Arterton type as far as I can tell.
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Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.
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I do this thing where I think I'm real sick but I won't go to the doctor to find out about it cause they make you stay real still in a real small space as they chart up your insides and put them on display. They'd see all of it, all of me, all of it; All the good that won't come out of me...
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I have an existential crisis every time I walk into a bookshop, knowing that I'm not going to read all the books before I die.
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On handling stress When you start projecting on the future-'Oh my God, I gotta do this and I’m not there yet'-well, of course you’re not there yet because you’re here now. That time will come…I try to stay in the moment as much as I can and find whatever joy I can in that moment, no matter what it is. Then it doesn’t feel as stressful.
