Jessica Marais Quotes
I'm looking forward to playing the meatier roles you get in your 30s. The early 20s can be a hard time for an actress - it's always bombshell or romantic lead. The good stuff you can really sink your teeth into comes later.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
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I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
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If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.
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I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.
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Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
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There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.
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I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.
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All religions promise a reward for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.
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Reading recent history is good to humble yourself, and also to feel some hopefulness that there is progress.
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Effort makes you. You will regret someday if you don’t do your best now. Don’t think it’s too late but keep working on it. It may take time, but there’s nothing that gets worse due to practising. So practise. You may get depressed, but its evidence that you are doing good.
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It was bad, but it was some other slightly less piquant flavour of bad.
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I'm looking forward to playing the meatier roles you get in your 30s. The early 20s can be a hard time for an actress - it's always bombshell or romantic lead. The good stuff you can really sink your teeth into comes later.
