Jesse Andrews Quotes
Hebrew School was my first introduction to real feminism. I remember that much more than I remember any kind of actual religious teaching.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
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I could probably stand up and have a press conference and thank 100 guys within that Denver organization, along with all those teammates I played with.
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I always tell my students to complicate your characters: never make it easy for the reader. Nobody is ever one thing. That's what makes characters compelling.
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The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
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When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.
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Hebrew School was my first introduction to real feminism. I remember that much more than I remember any kind of actual religious teaching.
