Jessica Chastain Quotes
When I first moved to Los Angeles, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me.
Jessica Chastain
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I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level.
Ted Danson
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I don't want to be 50 years old and rapping, man. I'm pretty sure nobody wants to do that.
Young Thug
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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.
Carla Gugino
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All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
Ted Turner
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The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'
Daniel Ek
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The great challenge working on this show for me is wearing polyester all day long and having the worst haircut known to man at the top of my head and sitting under fluorescent lights. That is America, people. Polyester, bad haircuts, under fluorescent lights.
Rainn Wilson
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If you pick up an eighteenth-century play, at the top it says 'The Argument,' and then you have a list of characters, and then you have the play. I was just always struck by that - that, of course, good drama is about conflict.
Damian Lewis
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Soccer is the most widely played sport in the U.S.
Rabih Alameddine
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The greatest problem for the human race, to the solution of which Nature drives man, is the achievement of a universal civic society which administers law among men.
Immanuel Kant
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Hamm: Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!
Samuel Beckett
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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Larry Wall
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Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.
Carl von Clausewitz
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If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.
John Cleese
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A great deal of what is being published by writers in the religious tradition is a scandal and is actually turning people away from the church. The liberal writers who are continually accommodating and whittling down the truth of the Gospel are responsible.
C. S. Lewis
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It is well known, widely known that the US President-elect [Donald Trump] has publicly spoken in favour of normalising Russian-American relations. We cannot but support this. Of course, we understand that it will not be an easy job, taking into account the degree to which Russian-American relations have degraded. But we are ready to cover our part of the way.
Vladimir Putin
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I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.
Keith Carter
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The first draft is for YOU, the writer; the second and subsequent drafts are for the reader. Trying to do both things at once — figuring out what we want to say, while also fashioning it for another human being to read — is the cause of writer’s block.
Karen Karbo
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When I first moved to Los Angeles, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me.
Jessica Chastain
