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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I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
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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 like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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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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I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
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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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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
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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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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.
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It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.
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Denmark nursed that anger and it kept him free.
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You cut your life down for spite!
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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.
