Jennifer Donnelly Quotes
Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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I had this maroon 'Lion King' tracksuit that my mum couldn't take off me. I wore it until the sleeves ended at my elbows and the trousers ended at my knees.
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Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.
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It's like a painter with various layers of paint. I start with a drum loop and add keyboards, and then melodies start to take shape. The vocals happen later. I've never really done therapy before, but it's a form of therapy. Everything else falls away.
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I'm a political conservative.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'
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Americans mostly now believe the climate is changing. They believe that humans are causing it, and they believe that it is a risk. But in surveys, Americans are not willing to pay higher energy prices to tackle the problem.
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Every story is organic, and every story finds its own ending.
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The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.
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You hear horror stories about scary mothers who just want their kids to be famous. I could be waitressing in a restaurant, and my mum would be happy as long as I was happy.
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There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.
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Language, after all, is organic. You can't force words into existence. You can't force new meanings into words. And some words can't or won't or shouldn't be laundered or neutered. Language develops naturally.
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Stage is so important because it teaches me how to convey character with words - how to convey how a character reacts by the way they appear on stage. I can usually tell a playwright from someone who has never written for the stage. Did the character work? Did the dialogue reveal who the character is?
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I'd been collecting different ethnic instruments here and there, and then I started making little bell type stuff, looking for weird little sound toys.
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I don't feel naked around you anymore.
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Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.
