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Jennifer Beals (born 19 December 1963) is an American actress who is known for her roles in The L Word, The Chicago Code, Flashdance and Devil in a Blue Dress. She is also an advocate for LGBT rights, women's issues and the environment.
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Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change.
I'm interested when people will stand up for themselves. I'm always interested in that moment when someone decides it's not good enough, and even though it's painful, they're willing to make a change.
Love is the most dangerous thing in the world.
Interview at PlanetOut.com (2004)
Love is large; love defies limits. People talk about the sanctity of love -- love is by definition sacred. Not some love between some people, but all love between all people.
I’m not always really calm, but I try not to get taken away by things that are incredibly transitory.
At any given moment in your life, you have the choice between love and fear. And that’s a choice you make. You make the choice of how you react to events.
Inside every woman there is a Kali. [Hindu goddess who morphed into seven hidden beings to win a battle] Do not mistake the exterior for the interior.
The ways in which we are similar are far more numerous than the ways in which we are different.
Interview on Regis and Kelly Show (2004)
Just when you think you know something, it gets turned around and challenged in some way. But those changes are welcome because you end up learning more.
For some people, they may categorize it as “gay love”. And for me, I simply see it as love. And there’s no corner of the universe where love cannot abide and grow.
I think science and spirituality are one and the same, I don't think they're really different…quantum physics is validating all kinds of spiritual teachings.
The more affluent areas, by and large, are afforded these big, beautiful, spectacular buildings, and then the poorer neighborhoods are just disintegrating. And there’s this imbalance, obviously, of power and resources.
We can have the final word on hate, neglect, disease and all the other insidious characters that still script their way into our stories...for now, but not forever.
…The L Word reaffirmed that good storytelling has a way of creating community. Fans everywhere have been connecting with each other online, in public and at home-viewing parties.
It behooves all of us to have everyone experience their deepest, most beautiful, most profound and powerful self, because those people are more apt to give their gift to everyone else rather than shudder in fear.
Politics is a lot like sex - if you want something, you have to ask for it, if they’re not doing it right you’ve got to speak up and show them and if you still don’t get what you want, then there is nothing wrong with doing it yourself.
I am strong-willed, and I am driven, and I am passionate...but I don’t have…a central cause…a motivating cause, I don’t know what that would be…other than trying to tell the truth when I work.
[On service] Giving feels good. It's a form of healing. Not just for you as an individual, but for everyone.
Every set is a man's world. Even on 'The L Word,' the crew was primarily men. The whole world is a man's world, unless you're in a nunnery. And even that is colored by what you're allowed, what doctrine you're allowed to practice.
[On yoga] Once you've completed a wonderful class, you get a sense of the deepest, purest part of yourself. You feel like you are connected to everybody else in the world.
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