Jessica Chastain Quotes
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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I went to Cambridge University and was the first in my family to graduate.
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It's about learning what's important and what's not important, and at the end of the day, what size you are does not matter at all. I don't have time to worry about that stuff; I'm going to be healthy.
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I grew up learning to do more with less.
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I did grow up in France, and even though I didn't go to the school or dance with the Paris Opera Ballet, I absorbed similar ideas in my training. I understand the scale of a big company. I danced for one for almost 20 years.
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I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.
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I grew up poor.
