Jennifer Jason Leigh Quotes
Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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I have to trust what I do and then do it.
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The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.
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If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.
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I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.
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I'm not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the way I ran my business.
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Writing comics and drawing comics is a really very specific art form. It's a lot easier to get it wrong than it is to get it right.
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Oakland's got a lot of character.
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I love The End of the Batman story. I have my original copy, the hardcover, at my house from when I was a kid, whenever that was,'88 or '89. It was very influential to me because it was so explicit in touching on the notion that Batman might be mad and that he might belong in the mad house.
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Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.
