Jemima Kirke Quotes
I know acting is not impersonating, but I'm good with impressions. I can do impressions of people I know, and people I've been, and roles that I've acted before.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime).
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I just live my own life, and I don't read any of the magazines.
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I think these last 10 years have seen just a huge shift in the psyche of this country as regards gay people. I think AIDS had a lot to do with it. So many families who really believed they'd 'never met one' were suddenly confronted with their sons becoming ill, and friends of sons. I think that brought a lot of it into the open.
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When a subject pops into a director's head, you either fit in there somewhere, or you don't. An actor is only who he is. Especially as you get older, there's not as much of a range of potentially feasible parts.
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I would love for people to look at me as a great singer but also know exactly who I am, the way that we have loved and respected people like Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle, having gone through the different stages of their lives with them. That's the type of history I want to have.
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I know acting is not impersonating, but I'm good with impressions. I can do impressions of people I know, and people I've been, and roles that I've acted before.
