Jessamyn West Quotes
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
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When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
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There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.
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I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
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I do not watch horror films. At all. I am not a horror film girl; I don't have the stomach for it. I've seen a few in my lifetime, like 'The Shining' or 'Carrie,' but I can't sleep for, like, a week after I see something like that.
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I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
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I'm obsessed with Marcus Mumford. I've got to know him recently; he's amazing.
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You'll see the most perfect person, and you are like, 'God, she's, like, perfect.' And then she'll tell you everything that's not perfect. Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.
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It's my luck to be at the frontier of what looks to be a resurrection of roots music on the international scene. That's really what reggae music is about: that voice against oppression and struggle.
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I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.
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I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
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I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.
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What's happened to broadcasting is that broadcasting really used to be... it used to have a very clear public service quotient. And it's more or less now. And it's been lost.
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The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.
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If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, 'good fences make good neighbors.'
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Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. Its principles may be eternal, but the expression of those principles requires continual development.
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All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the vast tracks between one and another that were trodden by the weary generations of men.
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Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood.
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Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.
