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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While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.
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I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!
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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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Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
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Every actor just wants good writing.
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While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.
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I think situations are more important than plot and character.
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Back in the 1500s, the culture that we had built in the West embraced multigenerational projects quite easily. Notre Dame. Massive cathedrals were not built over the course of a few years, they were built over a few generations. People who started building them knew they wouldn't be finished until their grandson was born.
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I think it's just amazing to be in a group of women, in a group of people that you can spend enough time with them to really get to know people and be inspired by them and learn something new about them every day.
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It's amazing how much misinformation there is about pregnancy and how many myths are still ingrained into our culture.
