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.
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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.
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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.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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Most interviewers basically just want us to rephrase the bio. You already know us - why do you need to interview us?
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The first 10 years of my education were spent at a Catholic school in Springfield, Mass.
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A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
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We are supposed to be liberated in America but if our President George W. Bush had his way, we wouldn't be educated about sex at all. Every woman would have six children and we wouldn't be able to have abortions.
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We want to lead normal lives, lives where our religion and our traditions translate into tolerance, so that we coexist with the world and become part of the development of the world.
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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.
