Jessica Chastain Quotes
If you want me in your film, do a favored-nation clause. Don't determine my worth based on what's left over.
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I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do.
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You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.
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God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.
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The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement.
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I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker and tell stories about the stuff I've been through. And I'm still a romantic; I still want Bambi to make it out of the fire.
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I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.
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Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.
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No one plans to get sick or hurt - I certainly didn't - but most people will need medical care at some point in their lives.
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I enjoy celebrating Valentine's Day. It's a nice way to say you're thinking about your family, someone special, or dear friends.
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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
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Before I won 'American Idol,' I'd never been in a professional studio at all. I'm getting more used to it. I'm really weird, though: I sing way better in a crowd of 3,000. It's easier than singing in front of 2.
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To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach!
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I have a hard time finding high boots that go up to your knee, because of the shape of my calves.
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A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.
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We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.
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The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.
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If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.
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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
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Heavenly citizenship and heavenly homesickness are in prayer. Prayer is an appeal from the lowness, from the emptiness, from the need of earth, to the highness, the fullness and to the all-sufficiency of heaven.
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A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.
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A true evangelist is almost as great a rarity as a true pastor. Alas! Alas! How rare are both! The two are closely connected. The evangelist gathers the sheep; the pastor feeds and cares for them. The work of each lies very near the heart of Christ- [Who Is] The Divine Evangelist and Pastor.
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If you want me in your film, do a favored-nation clause. Don't determine my worth based on what's left over.
