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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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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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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The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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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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Beauty is something that disappears when you try to define it.
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It's not true that I never left South Bend to recruit a player. It is true that I didn't leave very often.
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The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.
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I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
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So many Christmas films either are twee, or try and go super edgy, then stick on something Christmassy at the end of the movie.
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Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.
