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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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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I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.
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I think the Turks' willingness to take seriously action on the borders to stop the flow of foreign fighters joining ISIL is significant.
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You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes, we supported really nasty guys, we did some things that we are not particularly proud of, from Latin America to Southeast Asia, but we did have a kind of overarching framework about what we were trying to do that did lead to the defeat of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism. That was our objective. We achieved it.
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Of course, screwed up families are not the exclusive province of the famous. Still, most families get to screw up in private.
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It's always intimidating to meet an icon.
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The right costume determines the character, helps the actor feel who he is, and serves the story.
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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.
