Jillian Hervey Quotes
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me.
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When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
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The constant variety is the most interesting part of my job.
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I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth.
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I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that experimental science involves many hours and days and nights of laboratory work, which is a lot like washing dishes, only a little more challenging. I was too impatient, and maybe a little too sloppy, for it.
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I'm the kind of person that if I see someone else crying, I cry too. I take on that emotion.
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It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.
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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
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Only conviction sells. Well, when we are insecure, we really don't have that 100 percent conviction. Once we have it, we can tide over everything.
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Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.
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I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It's tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.
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I am not in favor of concealed weapons. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations.
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The distinction between indoors and outdoors, which in England is usually so marked, was temporarily suspended in a hot gauzy haze.
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To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo. It's often said that men use women. Use them for what? Surely not pleasure.
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Drifting in and out, you see the road you’re onIt came rolling down the cheekSay just what you need in between, it’s never as it seems
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There was only one thing of which he could be certain now. Boredom would not be a serious problem for a considerable time to come.
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You know, 'The Golden Girls' was a very unusual show to start on. I was young, and it was a show about old people, and it was a very traditional show, but it was also an amazing training ground for a joke-writer. It forced me to learn those skills.
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If the ongoing probe ends, I will take appropriate measures on anybody, including myself, who are found to be accountable for.
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We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings, half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have.
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Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.
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It's really exciting to be a voice for girls with curls.
