Jemima Kirke Quotes
Portraiture keeps me humble. It's simple and straightforward. There is nothing more interesting I can make up than the figure sitting right in front of me.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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I am really precise about who I want to work with and, no matter the timeline, I push to get what I think would be cool.
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A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
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I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.
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If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.
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You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.
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I shop more than most women.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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I'd like to do a really masculine film.
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I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
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Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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In some ways, in 'The Queen of the Night,' I'm writing about some of the experience that I had with 'Edinburgh' where I was entirely unable to speak about what had happened to me as a child, but I could read from the novel.
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I was always in trouble at school for what I was wearing; I was never made a prefect because of the way I used to dress - I ripped my tights, my skirts were too short, all sorts of things.
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Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.
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All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.
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Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.
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Portraiture keeps me humble. It's simple and straightforward. There is nothing more interesting I can make up than the figure sitting right in front of me.
