Sharon Jones (Sharon Lafaye Jones) Quotes
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I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself into the director's arms, into their universe.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.
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I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.
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Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.
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I'm very grateful to have had many brilliant students and post-docs who have worked with me. Potential is often hard to spot, but a key factor is whether they express a genuine interest in the problem and how they have thought about it.
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I am, and remain, passionate about news.
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What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
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I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.
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Of course I've had a problem with people taking me seriously because of my age. People are always going do that because you're less experienced; you haven't lived as much.
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I beat myself a little bit too much sometimes. When you beat yourself a little bit too much, there's little things that make you miserable.
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Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.
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He begins to think for himself and meets Nineteenth-century Rationalism Which can explain away religion by any number of methods.
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In a political situation where tyranny reigns and rebellion is not tolerated, few men and women will have the luxury of going beyond the stance of the rebel.
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I was weeping because Richard Parker left me so unceremoniously. What a terrible thing it is to botch the farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things meaningful shape.
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When I was a kid, and Elvis Presley broke through to a middle class, white audience, it was a sociological phenomenon that lasted through the Beatles and even a bit through Fleetwood Mac.
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I feel all right, my swing just doesn't feel quite right. In batting practice you can get away with a lot of stuff, but a game is different. I just want to get it calmed down and have the feeling mentally that I can go out and perform.
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Play with me and you play with fire.
