Jessamyn West Quotes
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
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Merit pay has failed repeatedly, and it's no surprise. When you base teacher pay on standardized test scores, you won't improve education; you just promote the high-stakes testing craze that's led parents, students and educators to shout 'Enough!' all across the country.
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Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.
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A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
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I've been in a few love triangles. I've been in a love quadrilateral.
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Six feet three in her stocking feet, L'Wren Scott was every inch a great lady.
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Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.
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Victoria's Secret is really about celebrating women and what they stand for: the strength.
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Honestly, I'm on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games.
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Apart from hard work and being in the right projects, you need to re-invent yourself. I'd be bored doing the same thing over and over, and the audience wouldn't like it, too. The trick is to break that monotony.
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I kept buying bigger and bigger jeans, and once the size 14s got too tight, I thought, That's it. I'm not buying the next size.
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
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The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.
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I had lived in that part of London that used to be called Islington since I was eight. I attended a private school for girls, leaving at sixteen to work. That was in the year 2056. AS 127, if you use the Scion calendar.
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A filmmaker chooses an actress keeping the best interest of the film in mind. If he doesn't cast you, it doesn't mean there's a personal agenda. Change is constant, and if you have agreed to be part of this industry, you will have to go with the change. The films and filmmakers, even the audience has changed.
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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
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Delivering advice assumes that our cognitive apparatus rather than our emotional machinery exerts some meaningful control over our actions.
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We don't focus on the little details. Right now we're squeezing, we're squeezing the stick. If we would get an early goal, but we think that by cheating we're going to get that early goal, but it doesn't work like this.
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Paradise belonged to the innocent. Which was why it was and would ever remain empty. And that is what makes it a paradise.
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The world is full of assholes. What are you doing to make sure you're not one of them?
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Living in Finland as a singer of Nightwish, I'm used to having people around me all the time that know who I am. In the Netherlands, people never really knew or cared or whatever.
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Groan and forget it.
