Jennifer Tilly Quotes
That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else - I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.

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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.
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Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and 1965, Johnson's principal goals were to win the presidency in his own right and to pass his Great Society legislation through Congress.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.
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Usually if you're the center of a show, part of your job is to host its energy.
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It is possible that the digital world may change the need for physical branches. We will continue to add branches incrementally, but we will reach a point - whether it is 1,500, 1,800 or 2,000 branches - where we will say enough is enough.
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My father is a businessman, and my mother is a schoolteacher.
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I love to sing. I also had a band during my college days in Saudi Arabia called Thousand Decibels. If not an actor, I would have become a singer. I am very passionate about work. I am a fitness freak: I go to gym before doing my shoot. I also do yoga.
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The principle of democracy is all about delegation of power by the vast majority of citizens through a few chosen representatives chosen on merit and competence.
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I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.
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Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.
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I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration.
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So, Japan as a country has lost its vigor; it feels very much closed in for various reasons.
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I've made lots of big decisions in my life that have shocked people.
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Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.
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The dirty wax of egotism accumulated in the heart prevents us from clearly hearing the Lord’s voice within. A guru, with the stick of knowledge, cleans our hearts. Its really ugly to see what may come out, but by following patiently, we keep cleaning.
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Taking care of the people who take care of you - that's how I was raised and how I like to do things.
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Time takes away the grief of men.
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I love mockumentaries. When they're done right, they're really good.
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Nonviolent struggle is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom.
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More people saw the pilot of 'Glee' than saw me in my entire 10-year career on Broadway.
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That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else - I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.