Jennifer Damiano Quotes
I was pretty new to the Broadway world once I began working in it. I hadn't really grown up being too aware of that many shows or that many actors in shows. I was always obsessed with Judy Garland, though.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I'm not looking to shock anyone.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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Panic is a horrible thing.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.
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I did not enter the industry to create a certain image. People happened to see me as the friend/sister/daughter next door. I like that association very much. It's close to what I am in real life. As for films, I just focus on the job.
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Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
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People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.
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I think many people expend a tremendous amount of energy on self-loathing and self-flagellation as well as getting caught in a vicious cycle of dieting and gaining the weight back.
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I'd say the best scents are ones that don't overtake a room. I love things that remind me of the outdoors and home.
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May Allah have mercy on him who sends me my faults as a present.
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I think the War on Terror has succeeded in creating more terror, more terrorists, a less safe America, and a less safe world.
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I was pretty new to the Broadway world once I began working in it. I hadn't really grown up being too aware of that many shows or that many actors in shows. I was always obsessed with Judy Garland, though.
