Jennifer Donnelly Quotes
I've always admired your rather formidable will, your refusal to back away from difficulties, but sometimes strength isn't about perseverance. Sometimes it's about knowing when to quit.
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.
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Ain't nothing but 10 grand. What's 10 grand to me?
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I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.
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What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?
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What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he’s done, and that’s as good as any man ever gets.
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For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow; it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.
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Not another day or hour would she remain, no help was possible, no atonement could retrieve the past, no love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man. To go instantly and forever was her only thought, and this gave her strength to rise and look about her.
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With the Patriot Bill in place, the NSA no longer needed to get a warrant from a judge to tap into anybody's electronic information. A Surveillance State that would have boggled the mind of Orwell was born.
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I played softball. I was on an all-star team. I traveled with the team. I loved it.
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I know people who are medicated and it's their favorite subject.
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As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.
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I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.
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Everyone has the opportunity to do a horror film. There's something great about it as an actor. You have to go to places you'd normally never go and be put in situations you would never be put into. You don't get the opportunity in a lot of films to have this kind of acting. It's an interesting challenge.
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Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure.
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There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.
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No one wants one language. There are applications when it's appropriate to write something in C rather than in Java. If you want to write something where performance is much more important than extensibility, then you might want to choose C rather than Java.
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I feel like my whole life only tennis.
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The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.
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But in philosophy, sometimes the baby ought to go out with the bath water.
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The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
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I've always admired your rather formidable will, your refusal to back away from difficulties, but sometimes strength isn't about perseverance. Sometimes it's about knowing when to quit.
