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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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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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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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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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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We're like a really nice drink. We help people get through the day-we make life a little sunnier. I don't think we have any profound effect. If anybody has had a profound effect, it's The Beatles, and their effect is still minimal. There are things in the world way more important than music. Family is 50 times more important than music.
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Coming into the music industry, even when I was a kid, one thing I learned is timing is everything. You being prepared is everything.
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You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
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We got to think of other ways to help these kids out because there's a lot of kids who get hurt in college and then don't make it to the NFL and don't have insurance, and their entire lives are changed when they put their bodies on the line for their school.
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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.
