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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I eat healthy, and I eat a lot.
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He didn't call his father and mother 'Father' and 'Mother' but Harold and Alberta. They were very up to date and advanced people. They were vegetarians, non-smokers and teetotalers, and wore a special kind of underclothes. In their house there was very little furniture and very few clothes on the beds and the windows were always open.
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If we intensify our efforts we can have a cloned baby within a year or two, but I don't know whether we can intensify our efforts to that extent. We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
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It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.
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We must go out into a desert of some kind your backyard will do and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.
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Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.
