Jessamyn West Quotes
Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.
Quotes to Explore
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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As a filmmaker whose first film was made with the DIY tools of digital cinema, I love how the democratization of the filmmaking process and platforms like YouTube enables people to tell stories that in previous generations simply could not be told.
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I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.
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I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.
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I'm a loner.
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Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.
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When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.
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The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.
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I admire a lot of actors, but I don't covet people's careers.
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May the bird of paradise fly up your nose, may an elephant caress you with his toes, may your wife be plagued with runners in her hose.
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The strike is inherently dangerous to the rich, and to the corporations who have brought this country to her knees, because it is the only defense the ordinary citizen has.
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I try to come at fitness and nutrition from a perspective of gentleness and what will make me feel good afterwards. I try to stay out of the mindset of needing to fix myself. I do whatever seems fun to me.
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Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being the arts and acting.
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Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.
