Jessica Raine Quotes
After filming, I can't wait to shake off all that '50s primness. I'll go out to a gig and dance ridiculously. I love to lose myself in music. Just letting go - it's dead important.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
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That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.
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I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.
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The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me.
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Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
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Very seldom do I write words and have somebody put the music to them. If I'm writing lyric and music at the same time, I usually finish the music rather quickly.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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This is a robbery, boy, gimme them dollars. We hit the lottery, boy, it's in ya wallets!
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After filming, I can't wait to shake off all that '50s primness. I'll go out to a gig and dance ridiculously. I love to lose myself in music. Just letting go - it's dead important.
