Jennifer Ehle Quotes
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.
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I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.
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I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.
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Friends are not made, but recognized.
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I'm an old trial lawyer.
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I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
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Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
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My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.
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I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run up to bowl. The perfect delivery stride is understandable because he is a world champion athlete. But the manner - he loaded at the crease and then bowled the ball - left me zapped. He looked like a natural cricketer.
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There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to.
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[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.
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Fashion icons that are famous in Paris, it's Charlotte Gainsbourg or even me on the Internet, but we wear the same clothes every day - a white t-shirt with jeans - so why are we fashion icons?
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Our knowledge of human nature is for the most part empirical; and it would often be better, if, instead of endeavouring to say some new things ourselves, we were to confirm without more words the sayings of another.
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In those years, when I came to the States, people were always asking me why I didn't sing anymore. I'd tell them, 'I sing all around the world-Asia, Africa, Europe-but if you don't sing in the US, then you haven't really made it.' That's why I'll always be grateful to Paul Simon. He allowed me to bring my music back to my friends in this country.
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I never thought in a million years that I would do a weekly series.
