Jessamyn West Quotes
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.
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I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.
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I have quite a foul mouth.
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If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.
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We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.
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I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.
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People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
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How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
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My mom is probably the only person shorter than me that I'm scared of. Still to this day. She's, like, five-two, maybe.
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Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
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I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, 'Why are we doing this? Why don't the Hawaiians have control?' 'Well, we have no mechanism to do it,' I was told.
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The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.
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A big iron needle stitching the country together.
