Jennifer Donnelly Quotes
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.
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I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.
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I think I might become a pescatarian. I love sushi, couldn't give it up.
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Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
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My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.
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You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.
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Farewells have reasons. If you can sense the reality, time is the medicine.
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Empathy probably started out as a mechanism to improve maternal care. Mammalian mothers who were attentive to their young's needs were more likely to rear successful offspring.
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Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.
