Gemma Jones Quotes
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I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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I found that I need to work, and I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't taken the time off.
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My favorite moments? Where it's all going swimmingly, the sun's out and I've got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.
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Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
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I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I dug deep and dredged up all kinds of vile things which fascinated me at the time.
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Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns.
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Liberals need to take the advice they routinely give to conservatives: that there are consequences to their divisive rhetoric, and that in their attempts to score political points, they are also inciting violence.
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I have always focused on the bottom line.
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I appreciate what I have a lot more than I did when I was younger.
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I'm not going to give up the shock part of my comedy.
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When people say 'that's risky,' or when the odds are not in my favor, I'm more motivated than ever.
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When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.
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I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.
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A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.
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You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
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At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.
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When 'The Warrior' came out, Scandal was no more.
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What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.
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Love is fragile -- she was thinking -- but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love-words, the tenderness learned, and treasured up for the next lover.
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I'm lucky because I have never been pigeonholed and the roles have kept on coming.
