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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Film is anti-language.
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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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I can't run on treadmills; they drive me nuts.
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Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
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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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She described herself as happy. This diagnosis did not come from any welling up of joy inside herself. It came from the observed fact, looking at herself objectively, that whenever she decided she wanted something she always got it, and what other definition of happiness could there be?
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Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.
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Pilots, to a large degree, are like salesmen. They have to be confident to be good at their jobs. They have to practice relentlessly and plan out all the scenarios of the things that could happen when they're out there. Nothing is more important than preparation. They are also mighty competitive, both as individuals and as squadrons.
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I used to be so embarrassed by salsa; I wasn't into it.
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Darkness cannot put out the light. It can only make God brighter.
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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.
