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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Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.
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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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Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.
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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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As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.
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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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In every combustion there is disengagement of the matter of fire or of light. A body can burn only in pure air [oxygen]. There is no destruction or decomposition of pure air and the increase in weight of the body burnt is exactly equal to the weight of air destroyed or decomposed. The body burnt changes into an acid by addition of the substance that increases its weight. Pure air is a compound of the matter of fire or of light with a base. In combustion the burning body removes the base, which it attracts more strongly than does the matter of heat, which appears as flame, heat and light.
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There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
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Hollywood has this incredible ability to make a lot of noise.
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Play with me and you play with fire.
