James Whistler Quotes
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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Proust is a huge author for me.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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My low center of gravity allows me to defend takedowns a lot better than most people. It's very hard to get to my legs. It's going to be really hard to take me down. There are a lot of positives to being my size.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.
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I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'
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I pretty much will do anything for a laugh.
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I felt that there were so many people doing it that I would just be like one of the others.
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I feel like plenty of people have normal-seeming families that, as they're growing up, feel awful. I'd rather have one that looks weird from the outside but felt really normal.
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I think that my script, if it gets used, would be great. But if it doesn't, I think it inspired them.
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I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.
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If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
