Jennifer Damiano Quotes
I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw 'Wicked,' it made me feel really cool for being different... and you can carve that in stone!
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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I get homesick.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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Things aren't always clear at the beginning of a relationship. Be up-front. Don't play on her confusion or vulnerability. Women want and appreciate clarity.
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Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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In music, I wanted to make sure I was innovating.
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You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.
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I'm excited about going back to 'Today,' but, at odd moments, I'll grit my teeth in anxiety. I feel like a student before the start of school. I've got my new shoes and my book bag, but I'm not sure I'll remember how to do trigonometry. During my maternity leave, I haven't used many words of more than one syllable.
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It's beyond my control who's going to cast me or how you're going to pigeonholed, so for me, it's just I want to keep doing different things because I want to get better, so hopefully I'll be hired to do them.
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It was kind of unique and great to have two films coming out within a week. It certainly was a different experience for me.
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I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw 'Wicked,' it made me feel really cool for being different... and you can carve that in stone!
