Jurnee Smollett-Bell Quotes

We got spoiled with 'Friday Night Lights.' Not every show is like that, and on other shows, if you try to bring that same truth or that same approach, the system of television doesn't always allow for that level of collaboration, which is unfortunate because the work would be richer.

Jurnee Smollett-Bell

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Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter.

Andrea Mitchell

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The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.

John McCarthy

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When you tour you become more intimate with your audience. It's like I need reassurance that they like me or at least find me relevant. And that I can still do it.

Steve Coogan

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When I was in my twenties, I strongly identified with Jane Austen's 'Emma' - her human failings mixed with a desire to do good.

Amanda Foreman

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I started out doing improvised voices when I started working in a program where I read for kids in schools. I had some kids and they asked me if I would mind doing it. I was very happy to do it. That's where I got my training before I went to the public. I did that for several years. It was actually the best vocal training I could have had.

Steven Blum

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I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.

Tom Hooper

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Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day.

Rob Corddry

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When you work at Google and tell these engineers that their skill set is relevant to somebody in Iran who doesn't have access to information in their country or the rest of the world, it really inspires them to want to do something about it. There is a genuine altruism that exists at this company, and that's why I'm here and not anywhere else.

Jared Cohen

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Having received the Spirit of Christ to know good from evil, we should always choose the good.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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When I look at women, older than I am, in their 50s, 60, 70s, 80s, and I see women that I admire, I think, 'Oh, I get it; that's how I'm going to be.' I'm not scared. I want to be that.

Annette Bening

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If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing with the Stars.'

Penn Jillette

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I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.

Nicole Kidman

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