Jennifer Donnelly Quotes
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I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time lines for each major character and a time line for the entire novel: What is going on in the world as my characters struggle with their problems?
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I've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
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I would do a Byrds tour or a Byrds record in a minute. I miss that band now. I've tried to convince Roger over and over to do it, but he's not interested. Music isn't something you can legislate into being.
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I believe that every person's individual testimony of Jesus as the Christ comes as a spiritual gift. No one can successfully dispute or challenge it because it is so personal a gift to the one to whom it has been given.
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Then we tried to come up with ideas for the sketches, and then, when we actually shot the movie, we really just sat down - never previewed the movie - we just really winged it.
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I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.
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While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments.
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And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period.
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Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life.
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Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.
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I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.
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I have said I have met Satan, and this is true. But it is not tangible. It no more has horns, hooves and a forked tail than God has a long white beard. Even the name, Satan, is just a name we have given to something basically nameless.
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When you lose, there is a whole bunch of room for negativity and I don't feed into this stuff and I do not do any talking. I don't run my mouth.
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I use to love you honey, 'til you spent all my money.
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There is nothing, indeed, which God will not do for a man who dares to step out upon what seems to be the mist; though as he puts his foot down he finds a rock beneath him.
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There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.
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When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They're the ones that are really happy.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.
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The Monsters & Strangerz, I love them so much.
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Who needs make-believe monsters when there are so many real ones.
