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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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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To go back means defeat.
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If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies.
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Never forget the nine most important words of any family- I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me.
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There comes a time in our careers that you get that one guy. That guy that just makes your blood boil. That really pulls the savage out of you.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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At the end of the day, you release music because you believe in the songs and believe that they're honest. That's all you can really hope for.
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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.
