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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Energy legislation in Congress and the focus on energy legislation is first and foremost about creating good jobs. In Florida, where solar and biofuel and wind and so many other areas are important and so many in the private sector continues to pursue these, we need policies that will encourage that.
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I do work-related stuff on airplanes. Then, when I'm in the hotel room or just vegging out, I read for pleasure.
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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Well if you don’t want me to grow up talkin‘ that way, why do you send me to school?
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The fact that I'm shouting that I have Gangnam style makes people crack up. Imagine if Brad Pitt was singing the song - would it be funny? A twist is important when it comes to writing lyrics.
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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.
