Jess Weixler Quotes
I feel like I owe Juilliard everything... coming from Kentucky at age 17, having a school like that giving me a chance. And if you can't afford it, you can get a scholarship.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what.
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I'm not a control freak.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
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I'm as addicted to 'Power' as I am 'Empire.' I'm just grateful. We get a chance to have two phenomenal shows that we can enjoy. So when 'Empire' is over, 'Power' starts. When 'Power' is over, 'Empire' starts.
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I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.
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When I see young people interested in music. I always look out for that passion in their eyes. You never know where that might lead.
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The petty logic of political parties cannot be allowed to stifle the French people's legitimate aspirations to safety and liberty.
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I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen to a young man it would almost certainly happen late at night.
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I want my kids to be in an environment where they can talk about values in a way that you can't always do in a public school setting.
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It's interesting to talk to Bernie [Sanders] about his life and growing up, you know, growing up in an immigrant neighborhood in Brooklyn. His mother died at a very early age. He was young then. And, you know, I think that experience really shaped him.
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I feel like I owe Juilliard everything... coming from Kentucky at age 17, having a school like that giving me a chance. And if you can't afford it, you can get a scholarship.
