Jessica Raine Quotes
I always knew that the only thing I wanted to do was act, but it took me a long time to say it out loud to anyone, let alone myself. I am surprised by how dogged I have been in wanting to make a living as a respected actress.
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It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
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I'm a proud family man.
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I give all the glory to God. It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.
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When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
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I feel great physically. I feel really good.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
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The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.
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Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home.
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I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.
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All the rays which convey the images of objects through the air are straight lines. Hence, if the images of very large bodies have to pass through very small holes, and beyond these holes recover their large size, the lines must necessarily intersect.
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Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language.
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On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.
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I always knew that the only thing I wanted to do was act, but it took me a long time to say it out loud to anyone, let alone myself. I am surprised by how dogged I have been in wanting to make a living as a respected actress.
