Jennifer Jason Leigh Quotes
Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.
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I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.
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It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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I am happy in Paris.
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We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.
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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free.
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Why can't you harness Might so that it works for Right? I know it sounds nonsense, but, I mean, you can't just say there is no such thing. The Might is there, in the bad half of people, and you can't neglect it. You can't cut it out but you might be able to direct it, if you see what I mean, so that it was useful instead of bad.
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An example of a trend that I tried that didn't exactly work out would be high-waisted jeans. We see them everywhere, but what I realized is that they don't work for every body type.
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I gave up planning when our children were born, when I had three children to feed and a roof to keep over our head and all of that. Early in my career, I said I would never do television at all; then I wound up doing nothing but television for 10 years when I did 'St. Elsewhere' and all those TV movies.
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Thank you... motion sensor hand towel machine. You never work, so I just end up looking like I'm waving hello to a wall robot.
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What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
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Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.
