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?Jennifer Jason Leigh
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
Wallace Stevens -
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.
Zadie Smith -
Gee I don't know, I just want to get home.
Dale Murphy -
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.
Damien Rice -
The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
Rachel Kushner -
I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
Oksana Baiul
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Venus favors the bold.
Ovid -
I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
Natalie Cole -
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.
Mal Peet -
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.
Ha-Joon Chang -
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.
Yoshihiko Noda -
To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that.
Yuna
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
Sallust -
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.
Garret Dillahunt -
I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
Ralph Fiennes -
John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
Carl Bernstein -
We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
Carey Mulligan -
There is definitely a need for increasing capacity in higher education; a large part of this is being met in the technical education segment by the private sector and in the non-technical by the state sector. In the public sector, we will do whatever we can afford.
Pallam Raju
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A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.
Omar Epps -
Those audiences are my critics. They tell me right away! I learnt very early on how far I can go, what I can and can’t say on stage. They inspire the stories that I tell, and how I tell them. It has to be something that the core can relate to. And what I’m finding is that if you serve the core, it grows, and you find a whole new audience.
Tyler Perry -
I had never written anything. And I had never studied writing. So my motives were pure: I had a great story... a courtroom drama that I sort of fictionalized, and that became 'A Time to Kill.'
John Grisham -
These monster cities we live in today are blights of modern society. They will certainly give way to planned cities interlinked to the countryside. Everybody will live with the natural advantages of the country and the cultural associations of the town.
James P. Cannon -
Without thee I am all unblessed, and wholly blessed in thee alone.
George Washington Bethune -
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?
Jennifer Jason Leigh