Derrick Jensen Quotes
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.
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I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.
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In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.
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I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
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In Benin, there's a thing that family members wear the same pattern of traditional African clothing.
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In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.
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I've been racketeered on.
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My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless.
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The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.
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You can always tell a novice rider; they aren't comfortable in the saddle and have to hang on.
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I always like to tell a story.
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I actually didn't always want to be an actor.
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An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.
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Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.
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A lot of things in films are cheated with the use of camera tricks, so while it may feel unnatural to do, when you look at the result, you realise that it is right.
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I'm constantly hydrating my hair.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected. And that's the kind of culture that I think allows all of us, then, to believe what we want. That's freedom of conscience. That's what our Constitution guarantees.
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From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.
