Amy Jenkins Quotes
They say you’re meant to live everyday as if it were your last, which I’ve always thought was daft, since no one would ever pay the gas bill if that was the case, but what if it were your first?
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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I really like clever men who challenge you.
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As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
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I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.
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Returns matter a lot. It's our capital.
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My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York.
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You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind.
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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
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I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time.
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When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other.
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I actually love going to a lot of theater movies. I just love watching actors work and seeing how people tell stories.
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It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.
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I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children’s story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children’s story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is a bad waltz.
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MS Paint was my creative outlet for many years.
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I have cervical cancer. I'm what they call a DES baby... I have been cancer free for 7 years now... I had it the first time when I was 19 and then it came back a few years later after I went through treatment.
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What you're doing is acting with yourself. Well, I'm my favourite actor, so in a way it's quite straightforward for me.
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I remember my first time coming to New York City. It was 1986, and I was on a U.S. tour with a stop at Lincoln Center. It was love at first sight.
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A lot of people consider 9/11 to be a tragedy, and in some ways it is, but I think there's also opportunity for a lot of humor there.
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I am so appreciative of all the attention I've gotten, especially since I don't ever consider myself anything more than a fan.
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It's a nonsense because, as we all know, there are brilliant 15-year-old readers and hopeless 50-year-old readers. All that categorisation is a matter of bookshop shelves rather than literary categories, I think.
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They say you’re meant to live everyday as if it were your last, which I’ve always thought was daft, since no one would ever pay the gas bill if that was the case, but what if it were your first?
