"I played a role. That is what actors……" — Jennifer Donnelly
"I played a role. That is what actors do. But I played it too well. I went too far. And by the time I wanted to stop, to take a bow and leave the stage, it was too late."
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106 Quotes by Jennifer Donnelly
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She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.
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The feeling that you get.... when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it…
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Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster’s International Dictionary of the English Language, but…
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I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse…
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I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and…
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Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said. No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous.
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A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away…
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What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of…
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My father had put these things on the table. I looked at him standing by the sink. He was washing…
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Make them care, Mattie,' she said softly. 'And don't you ever be sorry.' -Emily Wilcox
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It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent and hot...It's the eighth deadly sin. The…
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She was his soulmate, as much a part of him as the very flesh and bone that made him. She…
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