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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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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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
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Comedy is tragedy - plus time.
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Do you ever wonder why often you can't have the things you want most? Perhaps if you got them in this life, they would distract you from Him. Perhaps He withholds some things that you love in this life to keep your heart from being distracted...and then gives those things to you in the next. Forever.
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I first played the Royal Albert Hall when I was 14. I was a violinist with the Birmingham Schools Concert Orchestra, and we travelled down from the Midlands for the last night of the School Proms. We played some pieces from the Harry Potter films, and the violin parts were really hard.
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It's so crazy to meet people you've known about since you were many feet shorter than you are now.
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After I came home from the 1936 Olympics with my four medals, it became increasingly apparent that everyone was going to slap me on the back, want to shake my hand or have me up to their suite. But no one was going to offer me a job.
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Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.
