Jennifer Jason Leigh Quotes
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I am who I am.
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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As soon as I get home, all I want to eat is seafood.
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Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.
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Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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If you do nothing long enough, something's bound to happen.
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Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
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People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!
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I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.
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Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.
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I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years.
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Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
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They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.
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I don't think silicone makes a girl good or bad.
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I think it helps a lot when they tell people that Teri Hatcher likes you. If you're Teri Hatcher's boyfriend, suddenly you're hunky I guess. I've spent 40 years being average and now I'm Teri hatcher's boyfriend and here we are. I've been really fortunate.
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
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One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs a brisk coda to them, and then shuts up.
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When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.
