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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Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
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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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I don't like to talk about myself.
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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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Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.
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Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.
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No, he can never be lost who recommends himself to thee, O Mary.
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A big iron needle stitching the country together.
