Jennifer Hyman Quotes
It's amazing how much misinformation there is about pregnancy and how many myths are still ingrained into our culture.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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Barbara Castle was a hero to millions of British women. She inspired a new generation of women to become active in Labour politics, including, of course Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman.
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I am not stupid - I'm not young, and I'm not beautiful.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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The good thing about being an actress is that it's very children-friendly. I can work for three months, and then I can have six months off.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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Well, I always think the worst things are going to happen here, because I'm - basically inside, I'm a bad person, and so the bad kind of takes over.
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Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.
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When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.
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I would like to be more fit, but I don't think I will put on fat or gain weight for movie roles. I am not going to do that.
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I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.
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I was around nine when a babysitter snuck 'Who's Next' onto the turntable. The parents were gone. The windows shook. The shelves were rattling. Rock & roll. That began an exploration into music that had soul, rebellion, aggression, affection.
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Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.
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A frame of references consisting of learning patterns of behaviours, values, assumptions and meaning which are shared to varying degrees of interest, importance and awareness with members of one group.
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It's amazing how much misinformation there is about pregnancy and how many myths are still ingrained into our culture.
