Jessamyn West Quotes

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

Jessamyn West

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• I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I've never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.

  

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• The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

  

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• The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

  

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• The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

  

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• What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.

  

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• I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

  

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• It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.

  

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• I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.

  

  Ice T
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• I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.

  

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  • Up
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• I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.

  

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• I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

  

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• I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.

  

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  • America
  • History
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• It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

  

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  • Good
  • Difficult
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• I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.

  

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  • Child
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• I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

  

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• All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

  

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• I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.

  

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• The Left doesn't understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid does.

  

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• I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

  

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• Yes, an individual could be electronically stimulated to fear, anger, or euphoria from a distance. However, the procedure is complicated, not always accurate, and far too tedious and expensive as a method for taking over control of the world.

  

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• If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

  

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• Dr. Rosenberg has brought the simplicity of successful communication into the foreground. No matter what issue you're facing, his strategies for communicating with others will set you up to win every time.

  

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• If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.

  

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  • Fun
  • Ignorance
  • Bliss

• There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

  

  Jessamyn West
  • Ignorance
  • Communication