Jill Greenberg Quotes
I have two children of my own. Crying is not evidence of pain or any real suffering. It's really just the way children communicate.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.
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The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.
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American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.
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The scariest thing about receiving praise at a young age is the fear of burning out or losing it, or proving people right that you were just a novelty. Obviously, I can see mistakes in things that I've done or said and can see flaws in things I've made, but that's just part of growing.
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Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.
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Eleanor Roosevelt's very helpful to a lot of children who cannot speak French, who do not write well. And Marie Souvestre is fierce. She tears up students' papers that are not, you know, perfect. And Eleanor Roosevelt goes around, again, being incredibly helpful to children in need, children in trouble. And her best friends are the naughtiest girls who are in trouble. And she is a leader. And she is encouraged to be a leader. And everybody falls in love with her. She's a star.
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It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.
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The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals.
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I have two children of my own. Crying is not evidence of pain or any real suffering. It's really just the way children communicate.
