Jessica Springsteen Quotes
My parents taught me that having a passion is a rare thing, so following it through and working hard, even when it's tough, is important.
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The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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I'd never put all my chips anywhere, because I don't want to close any doors, but I was raised in a very blue-collar family. I was raised by parents who said, 'If you don't go to work every day, you're not contributing', so that's my mentality. I have to work every day; I have to bring home a paycheck.
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I'm not the girl for superhigh fashion because I don't have the right body.
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When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.
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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.
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My parents were very artistic, but busy.
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Though I made my share of mistakes, as all parents do, I was devoted to my kids. I walked them to school every morning and walked back to pick them up at 3.
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It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.
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My parents landed in Calgary in December 1974, straight from Nairobi. They were immigrants, like many people coming to build a better life. My mom was five months pregnant with me when they landed.
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I spent a lot of time doing really unimportant work as an actor. It was important when I started writing that I obviously make it entertaining, or no one is going to go see it - but to really make you think, that is my goal.
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What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.
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Religious beliefs have played a vital role in forming America's character as well as my own. I was raised as a Lutheran, and I believe in God and consider my faith and involvement with organized religion to be an important part of who I am.
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My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my parents.
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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
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I believe that eyes are very important motifs. That's something that can discern the peace and love.
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I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt bath. Do things that my parents were never able to do. I'm blessed to do anything I want so I decide to take the best care of my body and my family in the same way. Holistically. Vitally.
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Never let anybody get you down. Never give in to people who say nasty things on the Internet. Work to represent women in the best way possible because, even though respect and equality for women has progressed over time, it's still not in the place that it should be.
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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My parents taught me that having a passion is a rare thing, so following it through and working hard, even when it's tough, is important.
