Jennifer Esposito Quotes
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There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
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The role of an actor is to make every character believable.
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I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
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In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.
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We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.
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I plan on working out for the first part of the day, because if I let my day get away from me, the workout is out the window!
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The labor movement is a movement of the working people, for the working people, by the working people, governed by ourselves, with its policies determined by ourselves...
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Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.
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Laws prohibiting sodomy do not seem to have been enforced against consenting adults acting in private... I do not know what 'acting in private' means; surely consensual sodomy, like heterosexual intercourse, is rarely performed on stage.
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How can you just throw words around like grieve and heal and mourn?
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Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously. 'No artist tolerates reality,' says Nietzsche.
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Art, that great undogmatized church.
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Being a black belt from the Nogueira brothers, I have the obligation to always defend myself well on the ground.
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The actor that taught me the most was Bernie Mac. I did my first big budget studio film with he and Angela Bassett, 'Mr. 3000' for Disney. Bernie taught me by example what creates success is humility and hard work.
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Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) cannot be medicated. It is treatable only through therapy. The problem is therapy is rarely sought by the afflicted. It cannot be cured.
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I never resented anybody for being successful.
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I'm a history nerd. Actually acting's the best job for somebody who loves weird, different stuff.
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I like the idea of infinite human potential, and a lot of my photography and filmmaking has been focused on that.
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One has to look at my life story to see what I've done. I've paid a heavy price that many people don't realize.
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I find if you are in an office, the crisis finds you. If you're not in the office, the crisis finds somebody else.
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To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets. They plan holdups and practice karate. They will rape defenseless adolescents. They wear pants... Life has become impossible.
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Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered.
