Jessica Chastain Quotes
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We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich.
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When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.
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When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they'll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don't.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.
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My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.
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I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
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I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.
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I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.
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He who stands with his face to the East in the morning will have the sun before him. If he does not change his posture, the Earth in the meantime having changed its, he will have the sun no longer before him, but behind.
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Cubanas are very strong women. So don't mess with us - don't take us for granted!
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None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti's example.
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Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums.
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Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.
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Social media companies must work closely with the U.S. government to ensure their platforms are not being used by terrorist organizations to do harm to our country.
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What I enjoy most is doing something I've never done before.
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I firmly believe that emotions are universal, and I know that when they connect with the audience, it works. There is no such thing as an entertaining or a serious film; there are good films and bad films. Good films will always find a vast audience.
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Every blossom I see reminds me of you
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This year I just want to enjoy myself. I could give up tomorrow without having the slightest regret. I could keep away from this world for a year and then perhaps start to feel the desire to prove something to myself again.
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I'm very influenced by a lot of things, but my chief influence is my friends and what I see and what I feel and my own experiences and memory.
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The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work.
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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
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Pretending is a very valuable life skill.
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I started a production company - all female led, actually - called Freckle Films.
