Catherine Jinks Quotes

I was always told you're not going to make much money from writing. You can actually do it. Now I've built a really good, big house out of words.

Catherine Jinks

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Family is the one thing that is definitely not disposable.

Jenny Eclair

FamilyOne ThingDisposableThing

I love 45-minute power workouts. I get in, do my thing, and then I'm able to go pick up Everly from school. It gives me energy.

Jenna Dewan

LovePowerSchoolMeEnergyGo

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

Robert Carlyle

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The weirdest I've felt was my first job ever. It was an editorial in London. They made me take my underwear off and cover myself with a shower curtain. It was almost see-through, so I was like, 'What's this all about?' I used to be quite shy, but modeling has made me more comfortable in those types of situations.

River Viiperi

MyselfJobMeModelingShyLondon

I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.

Roddy McDowall

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I grew up on Chicago's South Side in a working-poor family, so I watched everything on television. It was like my window on the world. But we also went to the movies pretty regularly - mostly on Tuesdays, because that was Ladies Night, and my mom could get in for free.

Robert Zemeckis

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My money was stolen from me. I was eventually stripped of the ability to make even the most basic decisions... my daily life became unbearable.

Mickey Rooney

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There's a great deal of suspicion and misunderstanding about IT among practicing doctors. One hears things like, 'I don't want to be turned into a data entry clerk, and I don't want some machine between me and my patients.'

Mitch Kapor

GreatMeDataWantMisunderstanding

The initials BP used to stand for British Petroleum, but like Kentucky Fried Chicken, they changed their name to improve their image. Apparently, 'Petroleum,' like the word 'Fried,' connoted a company too oily for American tastes.

Luis Gutierrez

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And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.

Brian De Palma

FunSexyDangerousMoviesAlways

Rock and roll is about desire, about wanting something better. I think my characters all want something better. My understanding of the rock and roll dream is that a kid in an isolated place or a small town or an underprivileged world could transcend it somehow.

Bobbie Ann Mason

WorldSmallThinkBetterDream

The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.

Wiz Khalifa

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