Jennifer Holliday Quotes
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
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Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
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When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
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I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
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I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.
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We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.
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The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That's my fatal, absurd nature. Human beings are slaves to our dreams, and I am, too. Now I think I just want to share my musical proposal in its entire form.
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I think with Lyndon Johnson, the most important thing I learned was that he never had the sense of security that comes from inside. It always depended on other people making him feel good about himself, which meant that he was always beholden, continually needing to succeed. He could never stop. There was such a restlessness in him.
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Some people run away from things.
