Jennifer Jason Leigh Quotes
I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
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I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don't work. When you clean your house, you don't get tired; it gives you satisfaction.
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The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food.
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You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!
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I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!
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Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.
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The most magnificent creature in the entire world, the tiger is.
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The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.
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I cannot live anywhere else except India.
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When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who Vesta was and figure out what was going wrong. I knew it wasn't my singing ability. So it had to be that I was expendable because I didn't have the right look.
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I converted Dec. 31, 1999. It was a Friday. That was my second time going to the mosque. The woman who is my wife now... was basically raised Muslim - and she was at that point where she was deciding or trying to come to terms with her own relationship with Islam and how to embrace that for herself.
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There have been failures in the past, and I know there will be in future as well. But I have learnt from them.
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Here's what I've learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.
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I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.
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When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!
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I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.
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Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.
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We were just holes, after all, holes filled up with light, and deep in our secret hearts we worried that we were an accident
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The question of art songs always came up with Gastr del Sol. I think Jim O'Rourke had it right in being clear that there's a tradition of art song - Ives being the touchstone for the two of us - and what we do doesn't belong to it. It wasn't important to advance those kinds of distinctions, but clearly he thought it was fanciful for anyone to speak of what we were doing as being in that tradition.
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I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.
