Jill Bennett Quotes
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
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Bling is good.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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What I do is I do my job.
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The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.
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It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.
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If our financial industry regarded security the way the health-care sector does, I would stuff my cash in a mattress under my bed.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.
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We are in desperate need of a well-done romantic lesbian comedy.
