Jessica Chastain Quotes

I was excited that my films would finally see the light of day and people would see them. But I never imagined that such nice things would be said about a lot of my films.

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• The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.

  

  Otto Schily
  • World
  • Feel
  • Hatred

• I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Life
  • Great
  • My Life

• There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Life
  • Live
  • True

• Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Religious
  • Internet
  • Now

• Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Great
  • Artist
  • Poetry

• Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Like
  • Should
  • Novelists

• The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of 'It's a Wonderful Life' with Larry as the Jimmy Stewart character. In that episode, I was an ineffectual-schlep kind of brother, who got divorced three or four times and was a Las Vegas reject.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Life
  • Character
  • Brother

• Our best thoughts come from others.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Best
  • Thoughts
  • Come

• I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Movies

• The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Great
  • Money
  • Think

• Science is about unravelling nature.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Nature
  • Science
  • About

• I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Lost

• There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • You
  • Television
  • News

• I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Light
  • Sometimes
  • Queen

• I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Think
  • Been
  • University

• There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Wind
  • Research

• Women are often worried about how they look, and that's not superficial. We know that our appearance has nothing to do with how smart, creative, or hardworking we are, but it plays powerfully into what society decides we are worth.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Women
  • Society
  • Smart

• I did grow up in a military family but lacked the perspective to grasp the cognitive dissonance carried by most people who serve in the armed forces or the circumstances that push lots of folks into the military. I don't blame G.I. Joe or Rambo for that atmosphere, but they certainly reflected the final stage of a two generation cultural myth.

  

  Nate Powell
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• It always makes me laugh when people ask why anyone would want to do a sitcom in America. If it runs five years, you never have to work again.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework set,' or 'Boy, that was the best class I ever took because those exams were awesome.' That's not what people want to talk about. It's not what influences people in one profession or another.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • Good
  • She

• New York is like a vacation - no beach required.

  

  Sean William Scott
  • Vacation

• I was excited that my films would finally see the light of day and people would see them. But I never imagined that such nice things would be said about a lot of my films.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • People
  • Light
  • Nice