Jenny Downham Quotes
I get a lot of letters, mostly from family members who have been affected by cancer rather than young people themselves. I reply to them all.
Jenny Downham
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
Mamie Van Doren
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
Ingmar Bergman
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
Irvin Mayfield
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
Gary Shteyngart
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Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
Karen Salmansohn
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You hear all these stories about, 'There's one in a million guys that make it to the NBA and stay there.' To see people cheering for me and when they say my name, it's just crazy. It's still crazy to me.
Kevin Durant
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Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.
Donald Cargill
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The kind of hope that I often think about…I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us, or we don’t. It is a dimension of the soul It’s not essentially dependent upon some particular observation of the world or estimate of the situation. Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Vaclav Havel
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Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'
Jimmy Connors
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Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.
Jeremy Lin
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I get a lot of letters, mostly from family members who have been affected by cancer rather than young people themselves. I reply to them all.
Jenny Downham
