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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After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging.
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The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth.
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If we each had to butcher our own meat, there would be a great increase in the number of vegetarians.
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One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.
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Conquering something new becomes fun, even if that thing you're conquering isn't what you'd normally do.
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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.
