Jennifer Donnelly Quotes
Sometimes, when you catch someone unaware at just the right time and in just the right light, you can catch sight of what they will be.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
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I'd be happy if anyone wore my fragrance. They don't have to be famous.
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When I'm not working, I'm on the road with my band. Or I'm performing in poetry houses doing spoken work. So I've got another passion and another outlet that allows me to be creatively fulfilled and not sitting at home pulling my hair out waiting for the right role to come along.
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That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.
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If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.
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Reminding myself that listening is just as important a creative act as thinking is key for me.
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Sometimes, when you catch someone unaware at just the right time and in just the right light, you can catch sight of what they will be.
