Jillian Hervey Quotes
I've never seen the allure of being famous, because I know what that's like. It's part of work.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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I'm having a good time. Managing my things takes a lot of time.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
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For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.
Gail Devers -
It's a sad day when Republicans will attack fellow Republicans on an issue as fundamental as free enterprise.
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The hardest thing about becoming famous is trying not to lose yourself. The thing I like best about it is the recognition of my work.
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I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a star-driven thing anymore.
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The small are always dependent on the great; they are 'small' precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other 'greats' and who can transform it in an original manner.
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I've never seen the allure of being famous, because I know what that's like. It's part of work.
