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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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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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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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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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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We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.
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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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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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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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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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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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It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
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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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In addition to reaching out for help, you will also need to reach within yourself. Your biggest ally will be your emotions. Through them, you will learn more about what really happened to you, how the abuse affected you, and what you need to do in order to heal. Your emotions will enable you to reclaim the self you long ago hid away.
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Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
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I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.
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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.
