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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Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's fragrances smell like the air freshener in a taxi.
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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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Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization.
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I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.
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The friends of tabloid newspapers often point out that their journalism exists only because millions of people pay money to read it.
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I did some theatre. I had some smaller roles in a couple TV shows and films. I used to think I did a lot of acting, but my 'career' started when I started Homeland.
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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.
