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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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
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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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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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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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If you look where kids are spending time on the Net, they may have all the information in the world, but they're not accessing it.
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If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious.
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I think we should keep voting, I think we should keep supporting things that we believe in. I don't think we ought to just quit.
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Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.
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The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive.
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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.
