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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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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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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Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
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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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I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.
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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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Unless you're really interested in sleaze, you should not buy 'Newsweek.'
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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.
