Jon Tenney Quotes
It's always difficult to work out on location, away from home, but that's the actor's life. You go where the work is.
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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When my sister and I were growing up, she was made out to be the goody-goody one.
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Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. I also look backwards to the great comedic actors like Jackie Gleason, Paul Lynde and Phil Silvers.
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It's weird when people come up to me and know stuff about my life. That sort of creeps me out.
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When people evaluate their life, they compare themselves to a standard of what a successful life is, and it turns out that standard tends to be universal: People in Togo and Denmark have the same idea of what a good life is, and a lot of that has to do with money and material prosperity.
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It's okay to make mistakes as long as you learn from them.
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It's always difficult to work out on location, away from home, but that's the actor's life. You go where the work is.
