Jessica Chastain Quotes

I grew up in a low-income family. I was raised by a single mother.

Jessica Chastain

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• As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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  • World
  • Children

• I was funny around my family. My family, they're pretty funny, too.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Up
  • You

• I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Up
  • Risk
  • Failure

• All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.

  

  Walter Mosley
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  • Writing
  • Want

• The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

  

  Barry White
  • Truth
  • Thought
  • Innocent

• That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Up
  • Important
  • Rules

• I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.

  

  Nate Berkus
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  • Thinking
  • Small

• Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • Opportunity
  • Single
  • Training

• Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.

  

  Utah Phillips
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  • Why
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• I don't come from a family of slackers, but I do come from a family of doers.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Family
  • Come
  • Doers

• My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Country
  • Stop
  • Single

• To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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  • World
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• My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.

  

  Yelawolf
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• Red carpets and dressing up are a part of work that I enjoy less than some people.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I study a lot of philosophy. I want to be an example of how to enjoy this success, and that's exactly what I've done. I've enjoyed every moment.

  

  Flip Wilson
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  • Success
  • Study

• That's what's so special about 'One Life to Live:' it's just this real family in the sense of, we're only as strong as our weakest link. It behooves us to help people who haven't done the genre because it makes us all look better.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• My parents weren't married. It wasn't like my dad up and left. I maintained a steady relationship with my grandparents. My dad's mother is my nana, and I'm closer to her than almost anybody in this world.

  

  Alicia Keys
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  • World
  • Mother

• Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Mother
  • Dead
  • Cow

• There's so many opportunities, economically and socially, and just the location advantage and all the great institutions that are here, that this community is definitely poised for a huge revival. And so, when I think about Compton, I think about redemption.

  

  Aja Brown
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  • Community

• I don't sleep much. It takes me a long time to fall asleep. I'm a bit of an insomniac but, when I fall asleep, I don't ever want to wake up.

  

  Enrique Iglesias
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  • Time
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• When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Mind
  • Truth

• I grew up in a low-income family. I was raised by a single mother.

  

  Jessica Chastain
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