Jessica Brown Findlay Quotes
And it's as you get older that you realize that the things that make you strange are the things that make you who you are. And that's a lovely place to get to.
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Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body, merging with those in the background, create an optically strange scene.
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It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
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It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.
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It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.
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I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.
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You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.
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I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine.
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I think I'm at a place where I haven't really been encountered by anyone overtly strange. But people think they know me.
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Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn't ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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I'm not unusual; it's the others who are strange.
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It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.
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Sometimes you walk away from playing somebody and you think, "Wow that was far as from my own experience as I can possibly be." And sometimes you walk away thinking, "Wow. There are qualities in that character that I didn't realize I had." And those can be both interesting and uncomfortable.
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My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, Okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.
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"What can I offer you that will make you happier about how you should feel about who Angelina Jolie is?" I think that's a very strange desire to know those things. And yet I have it, with musicians in particular. I'm desperate to know what Micah P. Hinson is like or Julian Casablancas. Philip Seymour Hoffman made me feel like that.
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Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.
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Who cannot but see oftentimes how strange the threads of our destiny run? Oft it is only for a moment the favorable instant is presented. We miss it, and months and years are lost.
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The more you mature, you realize that this imperfections make your more beautiful.
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Once you realize that will power is just a matter of learning how to control your attention and thoughts, you can really begin to increase it.
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One of the reasons I love prayer is that it is an antidote to guilt and blame. If we are unhappy with the way we have acted or been treated, instead of stewing in self-recrimination on the one hand, or harboring ill will toward someone else on the other, prayer gives us a way out of the circle of guilt and blame. We bring our painful feelings into the open and say, "I have done wrong," or "I have been wronged." And then we ask for a vaster view--one that contains within it all the forgiveness we need in order to move forward.
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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3-D movies can make me nauseous.
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And it's as you get older that you realize that the things that make you strange are the things that make you who you are. And that's a lovely place to get to.
