Krysten Ritter Quotes
When I'm breaking in a character like Jessica Jones, I have this amazing opportunity to create her backstory. It's all of the work that happens before I'm ever on camera... Writing 'Bonfire' was like doing all of that fun stuff; it was like 300 pages of prep work.
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, 'What should I do now?' It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
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What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
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I love going to the spa; it rejuvenates me and leaves me happy.
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With Romeo and Juliet, you're talking about two people who meet one night, and get married the same night. I believe in love at first sight-but it hasn't happened to me yet.
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Although I now spend most of my time writing novels for teenagers and adults, 'readaloudability' is still a criterion I try to adhere to.
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When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
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If you don't have a Facebook, like, you're nobody. There's all of these sort of requirements now, and if you don't have all of these things - Facebook, Twitter, etc. - you're made fun of. And Twitter for celebrities... everything is just getting so personal. Pictures of yourself, of what you're eating for breakfast.
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Storytelling enables us to play out decisions before we make them, to plan routes before we take them, to work out the campaign before we start the war, to rehearse the phrases we're going to use to please or placate our wives and husbands.
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When I'm breaking in a character like Jessica Jones, I have this amazing opportunity to create her backstory. It's all of the work that happens before I'm ever on camera... Writing 'Bonfire' was like doing all of that fun stuff; it was like 300 pages of prep work.
