Jennifer Jason Leigh Quotes
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In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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Ill give you a definite maybe.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.
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I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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A lot of these guys in 'Fight Master' will compete in Bellator and in mixed mart arts for quite some time.
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I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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Franchises mean that you're tied in. That's a lovely feeling of comfort to the whole thing. From a business perspective, it really keeps you current and lets you go and do other smaller, more pedestrian things.
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For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.
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I'm not like a professional writer with professional skills. Songs kind of come into my head the same way they did when I was a kid. I say I'm an overgrown kindergarten kid. I work on songs.
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There are at least 18 dead in this barn. We've found the remains of at least 18. I'll think about this for months. I'll see it when I try to sleep. This is something you can't forget.
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I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated.
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The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don't want.
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I'm not great at judging a career. Or planning one.
