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JJ Feild Quotes

The greatest gift children can give you is that, for the first time, you're not the center of your own universe.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: 1978

Topics

Children Time Gift Universe You Own

A lot of people say I've missed out on a lot because I started acting at such a young age. What's so obvious to me is that I actually was really lucky. I gained a lot and I got a head start in what I wanted to do in life. A lot of people in their late 20s, early 30s are just beginning to figure out where they want to go.

Life Age Beginning People Me Start

Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.

John Shelby Spong

Life Good Evil Whatever Enhances

As an individual, and I have to say as a person of color, the thing about being an 'other' in America is I really feel like you're bilingual. I'm from a small town in Wisconsin, but even when I'm in New York and I'm working for MSNBC or CNN, you're used to being the only black person in the room.

New York Small Color Black America

From 12-year-old girls to 70-year-old matriarchs, I know hundreds of women who have some sort of body image issue. This is sad and seriously worrying, but it's true, and it's why I feel some kind of social responsibility to do what I can to show a variety of body types in fashion magazines.

Amanda de Cadenet

Women Sad Responsibility Fashion

Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.

Soul You Dangerous Will Way Turn

I've had Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy as a tag-team partner.

Partner Boy Had

What we need are different types of insurance, some of which have copays, some that have coinsurance, but they need to offer a better first layer of coverage.

Better Insurance First Need Offer

History is a story like any other, but black history is a story so devoid of logic that it frustrates the young reader. The young readers in my house, told of slavery and segregation, asked in disbelief, 'What? Why?' We - the parents of black children, the parents of all children - still need to tell that story.

Children History Parents Slavery Why

I grew up in a house where my father went on auditions, and he got some and he lost some, and there were good years and lean years. I didn't expect anything from the business, and that's often a danger in Hollywood, the notion that if you're pretty and have white teeth and just show up for the game then you'll win.

Good Father Business Win Game You

I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.

Women Mud Like Feminine Sliding

For those trying to protect the past, it is a way of retaining power, status, money, a way a life, predictability, comfort, control, and a bunch of other things like that. It is a struggle against the inevitability of change.

Life Change Power Money Struggle

We must insist on assimilation - immigration without assimilation is an invasion. We need to tell folks who want to come here, they need to come here legally. They need to learn English, adopt our values, roll up their sleeves and get to work.

Work Immigration Learn Values Want

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