Jillian Hervey Quotes
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I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.
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Equality in education is my number one battle.
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Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping.
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
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After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers.
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I love men and I like to get their attention.
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I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.
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I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not for me to preach. I should not willingly forego being a listener, a man who reads the Gospels and then listens to what others say that our Lord meant. But sometimes a listener speaks out, and listens to his own voice.
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, an evasion simply muddles 'em.
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It is a fact that Mussolini entered the scene of world politics as an ally of the democracies, while Lenin entered it as a virtual ally of imperial Germany.
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
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Do it right or don't do it at all. That comes from my mom. If there's something I want to do, I'm one of those people that won't be satisfied until I get it done. If I'm trying to sing something and I can't get it, I'm going to keep at it until I get where I want it.
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All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.
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I didn't even realize I was writing songs - I thought I was just being witty and sarcastic.
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I'm trying to spend less time with the phone when the kids are awake in general. I need to get better about that. It's a perennial New Year's resolution.
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What we eat will tell everything when it comes to our bodies, our skin, our hair, how we feel, your endurance for things.
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The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
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I can't leave anywhere without making my bed; it's ingrained.