Jennifer Hyman Quotes
I didn't wake up one day and want to become an entrepreneur. I had the idea for Rent the Runway and thought it would be fun to work on and also thought if it was successful, it would make women feel great about themselves.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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Having a book censored means something. It means you have deeply offended one or more people who felt they needed to protect unsuspecting readers from your inflammatory words, thoughts, and images.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
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The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.
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I eat next to nothing.
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Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.
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Is bankrupting this great country the top priority of this administration?
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I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.
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I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.
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Not many young women of my age have been lucky enough to have had a wonderful mentor in their life.
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I didn't wake up one day and want to become an entrepreneur. I had the idea for Rent the Runway and thought it would be fun to work on and also thought if it was successful, it would make women feel great about themselves.
