Jennifer Hyman Quotes
I actually think that self-expression comes, sometimes, from what you wear, and having the freedom to be able to wear whatever you want for whatever mood you want to wear it, but to not feel frivolous that all of those things that help you self-express have to be things that you're committing to forever.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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One person I find fascinating is J.Crew's Mickey Drexler. I would love to get into that brain and see how it works.
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Was die Menschen unter den andern Bildungen der Erde, das sind die Künstler unter den Menschen.
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Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
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I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible.
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I am not as I once was. They have done this to me, broken me open and torn out my heart. I do not know who I am anymore. I must try to remember.
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Freedom and slavery are mental states.
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I actually think that self-expression comes, sometimes, from what you wear, and having the freedom to be able to wear whatever you want for whatever mood you want to wear it, but to not feel frivolous that all of those things that help you self-express have to be things that you're committing to forever.
