Jennifer Finnigan Quotes
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
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I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
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I really wanted to work and become independent.
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You walk into the class in second grade. You can't read. What are you going to do if you're going to make it? You identify the smart kid. You make friends with him. You sit next to him. You grow a team around you. You delegate your work to others. You learn how to talk your way out of a tight spot.
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Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a character. That's how I learned, and that's what I was comfortable doing. And then, the first feature films, I'm sure I was no fun because I did not want to be spontaneous in that filmic way that really can work for you.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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The drills we do, where you're telling kids to memorize things, don't actually work. What works is engaging them and letting them do things and discover things.
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We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
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I work with CEOs and their executive teams... and very few of these people are really indifferent about their employees or their customers.
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I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.
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I always have been a busy person, doing my own housework, helping the Man of the Place when help could not be obtained; but I love to work. And it is a pleasure to write. And, oh, I do just love to play!
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Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.
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If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effectively given two options. One is get a four-year college degree; two is work at a low-wage job, potentially for the rest of your life. We've got to do better on that front. We have to provide more options.
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War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
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I'm just so happy to see my friends and fans in Taiwan, 'cause that's where I'm from.
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When I sit down to begin penciling a page, most of the hard work for me is done. I can concentrate solely on my art from that point on, which is the fun part!
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I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.
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Apart from hard work and being in the right projects, you need to re-invent yourself. I'd be bored doing the same thing over and over, and the audience wouldn't like it, too. The trick is to break that monotony.
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My relationship with the journalists who covered the campaign was complicated. I often hid from the critical eye of their cameras and their omnipresent digital recorders, wary of the critique implicit in every captured moment. But I also grew to respect and understand their passion for their work, their love for the journey we were sharing.
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When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.
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I'm a realist and I always have been.
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I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.
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I know it's a cliche, but I've been happy to go to work every day.
