Jessica Chastain Quotes
My favourite smell is the smell of cut grass, and the sound of sprinklers going on.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.
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Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.
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I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.
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I'm (Eugene) probably goin' to be promoted, and it'll be more than twenty bucks you'll get then, you just wait. You'll have enough to live on, Ma (Rose-Anna). You won't have to scrape all your life, the rest of us'll see to that.
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Your experience cautions that progress is neither easy nor quick.
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There were to be no short cuts to the truth. Instead he would have to adopt a longer, but a reasonably sure method. There would have to be conversation. Much conversation. For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away...
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It's not an old movie if you haven't seen it.
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You'll never get my mind rightlike 2 ships passing in the night.
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We - mankind - stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device - our consciousness of the crisis - as our unique contribution.
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I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence.
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In the economy of the cuckoo people that populate central banks, everything is possible. What you have is gigantic bubbles, the NASDAQ in 2000, then the housing bubble and then commodities in 2008 when oil went from $78 to $147 before plunging to $32 within six months.
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It's really wonderful to play characters as different from each other as I can.
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When the attention started to be about my figure, I was surprised, because it wasn't something I was focused on.
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But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
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I don't know, I feel like any role that I play is a little piece of me, whether it's their perspective, maybe how they dress, what they think is funny, their loyalty to their friends. It all stems from Kiersey.
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I like when people know who they are, know their limitations and what they want to do. It's the same thing for me.
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Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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I've never met another man I'd rather be.
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It's Survival of Them Who's Best at Nicking Things, girl!
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The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.
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Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready for someone to say, 'Your time is up.'
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My favourite smell is the smell of cut grass, and the sound of sprinklers going on.
