Jennifer Donnelly Quotes
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.
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You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.
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You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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I'm going to always bleed the red, white, and blue. I represented the U.S. in the Olympics; I love my country. But the U.S. fans will love you on Monday; if you lose, they'll hate you on Tuesday. If you win, it will be back to loving you on Wednesday.
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Everyone says romance goes flying out the window when you've been together for an X amount of time. I think it's all up to you.
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I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
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We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
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I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?
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The abstractions of Einstein's curved space and time gave rise to analogies and pictures that played a new explanatory role. Space and time gave way to space-time, visible light was augmented by images across the rest of the electromagnetic spectrum, and we realised that we could see back towards the apparent beginnings of time.
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I feel that the thing about film and particularly about TV, actually, is it's being created now. We're living in the best time so far because there are many more women writing and women directing, women producing, and people are finally catching on to the fact that women want to go and buy tickets to see female characters and more than one in a film. So I actually think it's a very fertile time to be a woman over 40.
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I struggled for a long time to get anything published.
