Jennifer Jason Leigh Quotes
I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know?
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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Gee I don't know, I just want to get home.
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Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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Venus favors the bold.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.
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It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that.
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It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
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You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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I would never call myself a cancer survivor because I think it devalues those who do not survive. There's this whole mythology that people bravely battle their cancer and then they become survivors. Well, the ones who don't survive may be just as brave, you know, just as courageous, wonderful people.
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Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.
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Karaoke bars are devil worship!
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When we began working on Parque Pumalin, rumours flew that we were establishing a nuclear waste site for the United States or, oddly for Episcopalians, which we both are, setting up a Jewish state. It would be funny if these theories weren't being taken very seriously.
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I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know?
