Jessica Ennis Hill Quotes
Being a mother changes perspective. Things that were once really important, the sole focus of your life, aren't the same.
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I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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With publicity comes humiliation.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.
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I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.
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I was excited to play Lil' Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role, whether it was performing the rhymes, studying the dialect, her swagger and her stage performances. I wanted people to see my range and stretch my wings as an actress.
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I've always wanted to be a very commercial director, or I had dreams of making these movies into blockbusters. And with each movie, they tell me it's not that way.
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Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.
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My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.
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Tunings are wonderfully inspiring, and it helps you to write music. If I'm stuck, you know, I change the tuning.
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My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn't happen very often.
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The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras.
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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My Emmy is in my china closet. People don't really look at it, though.
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I have run across characters in my political career that have that singular focus of being someone, being in a position of power.
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I'm trying to be a loving and caring mother, a loving and caring wife-to-be, a loving and caring daughter, a loving and caring friend, a responsible person. And every day is another opportunity for me to be successful at that.
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If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
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Being a mother changes perspective. Things that were once really important, the sole focus of your life, aren't the same.
