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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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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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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The most dangerous cancer cells are actually the ones that are more like stem cells, which have this ability to produce themselves over and over again. More and more cancer biologists say stem-cell-like cells in cancers are the most dangerous.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.
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One of the wonderful things about the information highway is that virtual equity is far easier to achieve than real-world equity...We are all created equal in the virtual world and we can use this equality to help address some of the sociological problems that society has yet to solve in the physical world,'
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I never faked anything. I never played the Disney game of smiling and being a princess and then suddenly having a hard time, saying, 'That isn't who I really am.'
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I struggled for a long time to get anything published.
