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Jennifer Jones Quotes

My mother told me never explain, never complain. Even as a young actress, I determined I would never give personal interviews, since they made me so uncomfortable.

Jennifer Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: March 2, 1919 - December 17, 2009

Topics

Mother Me Uncomfortable Young Never

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Jimmy Carter

Live Children Together Peace Learn

I eat a lot of whole grains for breakfast, a lot of dried fruit. And my big thing is pasta. I do a lot of simple pasta, with great ingredients.

Joe Bastianich

Great Simple Breakfast Fruit Pasta

Because of social media, we have a lot of personal essays floating around; you see them on Facebook: everyone's either reading them or writing them. Some of them are great; some of them are diary entries put forth as essays.

Meghan Daum

Great Social Media Writing Reading

All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.

Anna C. Brackett

Freedom Effort Action Acting Will

I have a picture on my phone of me and Audra McDonald from when I went stage door-ing at 'Ragtime' in high school. I always keep it there because I try to remember how important that was to me.

Rory O'Malley

School Me High School Picture Phone

I found that, academically, it really didn't matter whether I had received a certain grade in a class; it didn't matter too much what schools I wanted to attend... What matters is one's drive, one's intelligence.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

Intelligence Drive Too Much Class

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

Dito Montiel

War Friends You Things Get Who

Left to the mercies of their communities, Muslim women and children remain in abusive households and face losing their financial security over issues like child maintenance and inheritance through the judgments of 'sharia' courts.

Deeyah Khan

Women Children Losing Child Face

Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What they were like at school. What shoes they wear. Spend days - weeks, months - being them until they thicken up and start to breathe.

Deborah Moggach

Shoes School Writing Start You Know

It was magical growing up in New Jersey. My sister and I would go nuts in the basement and do full theater productions. We used a humidifier as a fog machine. It was over the top.

Brandon Uranowitz

Fog Sister Growing Up New Growing

We live in a culture that venerates scores. We affix numbers to how much fat is in our mochachinos, how quickly our telephones suck information from the air, how much pain we're in. Reading, too, has become a skill to quantifiably assess.

Anthony Doerr

Live Culture Pain Reading Fat Skill

I am man enough to be able to admit my own mistakes. I think that is an important trait to have.

Peter Hook

Mistakes Man I Am Think Enough Own