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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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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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
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A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
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People have always questioned, Was I crazy? And I'm like, 'No, I'm not crazy. I'm just totally committed.'
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I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down.
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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.
