Jennifer Jason Leigh Quotes
Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
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The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.
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I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.
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It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.
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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 am happy in Paris.
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Read at a time when everything feels intense, seminal, and like you're the first person to discover it, freshman year of college, Carol Gilligan's 'In a Different Voice' made my hair stand on end with awe.
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A decade and a half after victory in the Cold War and end-of-history triumphalism, the 'what do you leave behind' question is more urgent than most of us expected. The Western world, as a concept, is dead and the West, as a matter of demographic fact, is dying.
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Michael held me when I got inside, because I was shaking all over. That felt so good. Warm all the way down. Did I mention Michael’s feet? They’re all the way sexy, and he’s always barefoot – he hates shoes. I wish he hated pants and shirts, too.
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Feeding our energy appetite is top of mind for many people these days.
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Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.
