Jemima Kirke Quotes
People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.
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I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
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Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
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A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.
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Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.
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For months I had been trying to be less myself.
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An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
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Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.
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It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.
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A polka-dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living life, and also the form of the moon, which is calm. Round, soft, colourful, senseless and unknowing. Polka-dots can't stay alone; like the communicative life of people, two or three polka-dots become movement... Polka-dots are a way to infinity.
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People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.
