Beverly Jenkins Quotes
Thank you for loving me, Kent, because if I was married to him, I would have killed him so many years ago, I’d be paroled by now.
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.
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There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a miracle.
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I have always thought if there is a game, and there have been a lot of fouls on me, then I have been playing well for the team, so that means we're having a good match. You can win a free-kick when there's a foul, and that's a chance to score a goal.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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Hate and love are reciprocal passions.
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Thank you for loving me, Kent, because if I was married to him, I would have killed him so many years ago, I’d be paroled by now.
