Jessamyn West Quotes
The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
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We were descended from royalty.
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I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
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Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.
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I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.
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A big blockbuster like 'Kick' expands the audience for my films and makes it easier to promote them.
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Festive cocktails mean color, lots of color.
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I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.
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He has a 5 year plan... What is it, don't die?
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The highest form of worship is to find the least among you and treat them like Jesus.
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The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.
