Jennifer Ehle Quotes
People used to always ask, and I would say I wanted to be an actress. When they would ask why, I would say because my mother has so much fun.
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We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
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I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
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I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
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It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.
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I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.
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I've done loads of things people have never seen - dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush - and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.
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Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.
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There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.
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Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
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Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.
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Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.
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A show hosted by a black had never been accepted, so the first time that knob's turned on, people are judging against all they have ever been taught. I may have been the first black in the house.
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I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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When I came up in hip hop, there was no such thing as a Puerto Rican rapper doing hip hop for many mainstream people, so I was the ship, the captain, and the crew.
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And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy.
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I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral.
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And I'm a Hailsham student – which is enough by itself sometimes to get people's backs up.
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I gave away most of my trophies, put away the plaques.
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It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing.
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People used to always ask, and I would say I wanted to be an actress. When they would ask why, I would say because my mother has so much fun.
