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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• I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Problem

• 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.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Life
  • Work
  • Feeling

• 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?

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Mother
  • Game
  • Strength

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

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Care
  • Leadership
  • Forced

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

  

  Danica Patrick
  • You
  • Difference
  • Driven

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

  

  Gary Larson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

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

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Work
  • Lucky
  • Everyone

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

  

  Patrick Kane
  • World
  • Different
  • Cool

• We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Wife
  • Rule
  • Fine

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

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Movie
  • Kind
  • See

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

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Goal
  • Gift
  • Adulthood

• 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
  • End
  • Short

• 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
  • Yourself
  • 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
  • Education
  • College

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

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Time
  • Start
  • Brothers

• 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.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Time
  • Success
  • Progress

• 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
  • Me
  • Stop

• Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Secret
  • Perseverance

• The sad thing is that I know no athletes' names. I am not a sports girl at all.

  

  Clara Mamet
  • Girl
  • Sports
  • Sad

• If I can do it, you can do it. Anybody can.

  

  Doris Day
  • I Can
  • You Can Do It

• I was on the improv team in high school, and after I graduated, I joined an improv company that had been established 10 years prior to me getting there. They did longform improv, and I fell in love with it. It's acting, character creation, collaborative, artistic expression and comedy - and it's scary. It was a big rush.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Character
  • Comedy
  • Creation

• The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense.

  

  Robert Walpole
  • Treasure
  • Accounts
  • Parliament

• I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn't fit in, and I felt like a freak.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Fun
  • Tone
  • Eccentric

• 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