Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Quotes
It's important to be able to have representation for black queer women, because I feel like there's not much representation for them in the mainstream.
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You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
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The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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If I'm going to be 'too' anything, 'too cute' is fine. I love puppies. So what? Who hates puppies?
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My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing.
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Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas – including this one.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.
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Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.
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I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.
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'Lieutenant Crosshaw says you are a special case!' bellowed Helve. 'I do not like special cases! Special cases do not make good soldiers! Special cases do not help other recruits become good soldiers! Therefore, you will not be a special case! You understand me!' 'I think so-' 'Shut up! That was not a question!'
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Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
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What's important with writing is that it comes from a place you absolutely love. I'm writing for film and TV. In America, they call people like me 'multi-hyphenators.'
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It's important to be able to have representation for black queer women, because I feel like there's not much representation for them in the mainstream.
