Jennifer Beals Quotes
I've had some of the best craft services on independent movies, actually, because they get more creative, generally, with a smaller budget. The work is still the same. I didn't really notice the difference other than I was getting dressed behind a curtain, basically.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
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My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
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My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
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When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That they could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way. You're asking that I second say the world.
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We were sweet, lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you're young you think that's how life works.
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Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
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I've had some of the best craft services on independent movies, actually, because they get more creative, generally, with a smaller budget. The work is still the same. I didn't really notice the difference other than I was getting dressed behind a curtain, basically.
