Jennifer Donnelly Quotes

Becuse God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.

Jennifer Donnelly

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• In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.

  

  Aaron Siskind
  • Art
  • Want
  • Know

• To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Today
  • White

• Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Why
  • More
  • Soccer

• If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.

  

  Yossi Vardi
  • Way
  • Successful
  • Honest

• The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Work
  • Why

• I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Love
  • Artist

• Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Boxing
  • Very
  • Both Sides

• We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • American
  • Pilots

• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  

  Mae West
  • Office
  • Reward
  • Box

• Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

  

  Irving Ravetch
  • Life
  • Men
  • Nobody

• Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Day

• I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Worry
  • Body
  • Enough

• But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Time
  • Music
  • Energy

• It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Age
  • Religion
  • Sex

• There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • People
  • World
  • God

• And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Different
  • Love

• If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • People
  • You
  • Presence

• The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Good
  • Will
  • Essence

• If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Up
  • Time
  • Expectation

• When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Ride
  • Egypt
  • Outsider

• Murana is the name of the mask I have designed for Venini: a volume to wear for filtering the reality through the glass of its surfaces, a face without sexual or racial connotations able to represent every kind of humanity, a soul for an object that could be casually perceived as a vase.

  

  Fabio Novembre
  • Soul
  • Reality
  • Humanity

• The thin-lipped armorer, Hephaestos, hobbled away, Thetis of the shining breasts Cried out in dismay At what the god had wrought To please her son, the strong Iron-hearted man-slaying Achilles Who would not live long.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • God
  • Long
  • Live

• Becuse God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • God
  • Interest
  • Devil