Jessica Chastain Quotes
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There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.
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Research suggests that large divisions of income and wealth weaken demand and generate economic imbalances that create instability and undermine growth.
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We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.
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We do need to have a little bit more protection and sensibility around pensioners. They are remarkable. They gave so much. We need to make sure we do our best by them.
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You can enjoy yourself, but you need to look after yourself as well.
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It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.
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The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted.
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I really liked Kishore Kumar. He had a virile man's voice, and he was truly versatile.
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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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There are a lot of funny people and a lot of unfunny people. Some of them are women and some of them are dudes.
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Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.
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I learned how to shoot when I was pretty little.
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Move every day. Like taking a shower and brushing your teeth. Make it a part of your everyday life.
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I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I don't think I learned how to write at Oxford. I did not go to any creative writing classes or anything.
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My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'
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I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organises cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we can help groom them, either in India or abroad.
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Gale and Shapley assumed that each person has a given ranking among potential mates that determines rather than is determined by the equilibrium sorting.
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The symbol for the Environment Ministry is the eye of a tortoise, for the long view-the understanding that nothing comes cheap or quickly without a hidden cost.
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My tutor was a film director on the side, and she introduced me to film. She then put me in one of her short films, and it came out of that. That's when I fell in love with the process of making a film. After that, I was about 15 and I was like, "This is what I've gotta do." So, I started taking acting lessons, and then I applied to college to do acting. I got an agent, and it all just happened.
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Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.
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Acceptance of race mixture was more developed in Arab culture than in Jewish culture.
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What I discovered all over Ireland is that people living simple lives by the sea or in the remote countryside seem a lot calmer than city folk with their iPads and their Android phones.
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Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice.
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For me, I'm not in an industry where I'm starving.
