Jennifer Donnelly Quotes
Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
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Humans don't 'need' math-based cryptocurrencies when dealing with other humans. We walk slowly, talk slowly, and buy big things. Credit cards, cash, wires, checks - the world seems fine.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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The different bodies of my work end themselves when there's no more discovery to be had.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.
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Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
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I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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Cuban Americans have little in common with immigrants from Mexico and Central America, and often their priorities don't align. If it seems like Cuban Americans don't have to play by the same rules as everyone else, that's probably because they don't.
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My first job at General Motors was as a quality inspector on the assembly line. I was checking fits between hoods and fenders. I had a little scale and clipboard. At one point, I was probably examining 60 jobs an hour during an eight-hour shift. A job like that teaches you to value all the people who do a job like that.
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It is in our power to educate all the children of the world to become a little better as people, a little happier.
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It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.
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The head coach don't want no sissies, so he reads to us from something called Ulysses.
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I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
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Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?
