Jesse Williams Quotes
I thought that if acting didn't work out, I'd have done law school or medical school: probably law to be honest.
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I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself.
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If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'
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I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill gangster film; it was a love story.
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The things I wanted to do from a very early age - ie. get married and have children - precluded a lot of guys my own age from wanting to have anything to do with me.
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And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into fog. Fog closing in on all sides. I didn't know where I was at all.
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Often, when Jim Carrey plays it straight, all of the vitality is drained from his face; he looks like a root-canal patient trying out a pleasant expression for his oral surgeon.
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Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know.
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I thought that if acting didn't work out, I'd have done law school or medical school: probably law to be honest.
