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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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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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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So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.
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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've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.
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I sort of have stepped out of the public eye, and it's actually been really refreshing.
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Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.
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For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.
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I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still... I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.
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It's raining questions around here. A person could drown in them.
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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.
