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 remember a time when I was younger, when if you had to see an actor, you had to go to the theatre and watch a film.
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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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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
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I guess there were things about the Obamas I discovered that I do think are universal to marriage. I found it very interesting in my reporting that their most difficult periods in the White House almost never seemed to coincide. When one was down, the other one was holding it together. In my experience, that's true of marriage generally.
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Looking back I find it hard to believe that I could forge a career in anything other than football but I didn't do too badly in my final exams and there were a few business-related courses that interested me.
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Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.
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We have not seen a single Jew blow himself up in a German restaurant. We have not seen a single Jew destroy a church. We have not seen a single Jew protest by killing people.
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A big iron needle stitching the country together.
