Jennifer Donnelly Quotes

When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.

Jennifer Donnelly

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• Write
• Endures
• Bravo

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• Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.

  

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• I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying... mothers are like that, aren't they?

  

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• I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

  

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• To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.

  

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• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

  

  Gary Larson
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• I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.

  

  Rafael Nadal
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• It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.

  

  Patrick Kane
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• When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.

  

  S. E. Hinton
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• Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Goal
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• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
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• The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Want
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  • Scary

• My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Father
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• I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Time
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• If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

  

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• I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Want
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• Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

  

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• I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.

  

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• Everybody claims they have relatable, connectable characters, but those claims often aren't true.

  

  David Walton
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• Insurance and funding traditionally drive capital investment. But in a world based on access, not ownership, the duration, value, cost and extent of financial services is distinctly different.

  

  Lisa Gansky
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  • Different
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• Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.

  

  Dale Carnegie
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  • Job
  • Happy

• Whether it be tour posters, album packaging, videos, stage design, etc., the visual aspect of music is very important to us.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
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  • Important
  • Design

• My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.

  

  Ciaran Hinds
  • Music
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• When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Music
  • Write
  • Endures