Jessica Scorpio Quotes
Exercise plays a huge role in keeping me sane, and that's my primary motivation to 'find time.'
Quotes to Explore
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.
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To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.
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I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.
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On many accounts, Cornwall may be regarded as one of the most interesting counties of England, whether we regard it for its coast scenery, its products, or its antiquities.
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I'm not running from the left; I'm running from the bottom. I'm running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.
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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and Birmingham.
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I remember how I would wait for a play idea. I wasted a tremendous amount of time. I didn't realize that ideas could be made into movies or novels.
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Exercise plays a huge role in keeping me sane, and that's my primary motivation to 'find time.'
