Jurnee Smollett-Bell Quotes

It's not very exciting to go to work to just have your character's identity being defined by her relationship with her male counterparts.

Jurnee Smollett-Bell

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I don't think I am that materialistic, actually. Obviously at home in the country the art collection is important, but we have one big room in the middle of the house where we do everything - the television, the kitchen, everything.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

Matthew Henry

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In theatre, previews are the first draft of a show. I strongly believe that. The only way we can truly tell whether that draft works is by having an audience present.

John Tiffany

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The FTC doesn't regulate political speech.

John Quelch

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I personally think that if you deny something or if you hide something you're inadvertently admitting it's wrong.

Amber Heard

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Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats?

Steven Pinker

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When you break your pelvis, you can't do a whole lot. It took me about six weeks to be able to get out of bed. Anything you do that shakes your body is painful all over, so you can't cough, you can't sneeze, and going to the bathroom is impossible.

Tony Hawk

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For me, drawing was an outlet. No one in school said, 'Oh, she can do sports,' or, 'She's pretty,' but I could draw.

Roz Chast

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To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.

Rupert Sanders

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I've been told before, and I tend to believe it, I'm not like most actresses out there.

Moira Kelly

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You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.

Jules Verne

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I sort of was inspired by 'Friday Night Lights,' where it was a very different show, but similar in that they were both large ensemble dramas where you had many stories going on at once. I wanted to do a show that shared that element, and that's really why I wanted to develop 'Parenthood' as a series.

Jason Katims

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