Jennifer Ehle Quotes
There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time - I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.
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I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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A well begun is half ended.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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True thusness is without defiling thought; it cannot be known through conception and thought.
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I don't think we ever clash but we do become frosty.
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'The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.'
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This is the strange thing about existing in time. As [Philip] Larkin puts it, "truly, though our element is time, we are not used to the strange perspectives open at each moment of our lives" - something like that.
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It is a sin to be poor.
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There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time - I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated.
