Jessica Hagedorn Quotes
Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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People say, 'He doesn't want to be a spokesperson for the gay community.' I do, of course I do, but I want to be a spokesperson for everyone. Ya know, straight people, gay people, bisexual. I don't want it to be limited.
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One of my favorites of all time was with Jim Jarmusch, called 'Dead Man.' I was in that with Johnny Depp. I ride really well, and I shoot a gun really well. I love the genre. Once I did Westerns, I was hooked.
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There are emotional relationships in any business.
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Women are totally unsafe in Punjab.
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I would never say no to anything that sounded interesting! The thing I like about making films is that the adventure just begins when you pick up the camera.
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Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child.
