Jamie Blackley Quotes
In England, we're around so much American culture and TV anyway, so it's an accent that's always in our ear.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'
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I think people get a sense of possibility when they're on a plane, even romantic possibility, wondering if the perfect person is going to sit down next to them or something.
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
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As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.
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When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
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Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.
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To adapt a play into a movie, you have to change it.
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When I moved to Bombay, it was very harsh. I was nothing like what I am today. I couldn't speak a word of English. In England, people might be very understanding about that, but in Bombay, they're not very forgiving. 'If you don't speak English, how do you expect to work in Hindi films?'
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The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that continent. You feel the need to act to try and solve them.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
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When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn't make you laugh, he probably ain't gonna make you join.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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If you can find one thing in your life that can keep you in the moment, you're totally lucky.
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I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.
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In England, we're around so much American culture and TV anyway, so it's an accent that's always in our ear.
