Jessamyn West Quotes
You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.
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Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous.
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I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.
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Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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Never judge a person if you don't know him.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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What is essential - the one thing that could stop us being coarsened to other lives - is that we feel a great, living wave of animal life all around us, covering the earth.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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As a small business owner, I've had to find ways to keep costs as low as possible while still providing customers with the ability to use their credit cards for payments. Many credit card processing companies are so expensive when it comes to fees that it started to feel like a losing proposition to offer this payment option.
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I don't know if there's ever been a female-driven film or a male-driven film. I don't believe in that. I believe a film is a film - a movie can only work if everything about the film works.
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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.
