Jennifer McMahon Quotes
My mother taught me to believe in ghosts: to use a Ouija board, have seances, and leave little offerings out for those who have passed.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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To be is to do.
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A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
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I went to Antarctica on a science research boat just to sort of clear my head.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
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I started with paragliding. Paragliding is taking off from mountains with a paraglider, with the possibility to fly cross-country, distance, just with the use of thermals to soar. Also, different aerobatic maneuvers are possible with a paraglider. From there, I started with skydiving.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
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You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.
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I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.
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Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
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As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal.
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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Every member of Congress is sent to Washington to represent all of their constituents, regardless of their age, race, social standing, or sexual orientation, and I believe that America should be a place where everybody can dream, and nobody is left out.
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For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie.
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My mother taught me to believe in ghosts: to use a Ouija board, have seances, and leave little offerings out for those who have passed.
