Jennifer Jason Leigh Quotes
I feel like I had a great career in a way. Maybe not the most successful monetarily or in other ways, but creatively, I feel incredibly fortunate.
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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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Society becomes how we behave.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.
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Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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I received a call from Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum and head coach Eric Mangini. They asked me if I was ready to become a New York Jet. I quickly answered 'yes' and began to hug everyone at the table.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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Government bonds have basically been sold in the domestic market, so there is some sense of stability, but the amount of public debt is really severe... Japan must manage its finances with a sense of urgency.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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If we want to protect people against dictators or repression or torture, don't you need that rule to be universal so as to not end up with a situation where we do so only when it is comfortable, profitable and safe?
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Perhaps the greatest barrier to revival on a large scale is the fact that we are to interested in a great display. We want an exhibition; God is looking for a man who will throw himself entirely on God. Whenever self-effort, self-glory, self-seeking or self-promotion enters into the work of revival, then God leaves us to ourselves.
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I feel like I had a great career in a way. Maybe not the most successful monetarily or in other ways, but creatively, I feel incredibly fortunate.
