Jennifer Yuh Nelson Quotes
Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for them, and making sure they can lose themselves in the performance!
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A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have been too busy playing golf or something.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.
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Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.
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It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.
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To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
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I think in a lot of network television, everyone's vaguely Protestant and doesn't really go to church so they can be 'relatable.'
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We have overcome some terrible blows to our democracy, to the future of our democracy, to the future of our nation. We survived the Civil War and the strife that tore this nation apart.
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My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!
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Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races.
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My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Sarah is very strong. She's really intelligent and she's very physically capable. I like to put that into my own life as well.
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I used to play shows in D.C. and then drive back to New York to work at 6 A.M. So there are those moments, and you just really need to power through them. Eventually, it builds on itself.
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Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.
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I'd love to write with some people from the U.K., like Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sande... there's a very long list.
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I am quite an early riser - I usually get up between 5.30 and 6am and take the dogs out.
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I think for marketplace businesses, and when you think about online dating, it's not a social network. It's not a place where you go to talk to people you already know; it's a place you go to interact with someone you've never met before.
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I've never been a show horse or particularly charismatic. I'm just the guy who gets up and works hard every day.
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Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change.
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My favorite movies are movies that I go in and I leave deeply affected. Whether I laugh really hard or whether I cry really hard, I just want to feel really affected in that moment.
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The character and the actor in a long-running series slowly become one. I think there must be funny stories about actors who, in the pilot for a TV series, did some weird thing with their eyes, or some speech impediment or something, and the next thing you know, it's eight years later, and they're still doing that freaking gag.
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Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for them, and making sure they can lose themselves in the performance!
