Jessica Stockholder Quotes
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Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
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I've been a little bit Las Vegas and casino-obsessed. So, I love some trashy glamour... and I think nothing's trashier or more glamorous than a bit of a sheer number!
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The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends.
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I get cyber-bullied all of the time. Everybody has something negative to say. It is so hurtful. So I think that it is really important for kids to know how to deal with it correctly because it can be a really dangerous situation.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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The crazy thing about the dab is like - dance moves, once you create them, they last forever.
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American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
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If I take two years off, I would want to fight as much as possible.
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Before I was born, my mom and my dad, they used to rescue dogs, so at one point, they had 13 dogs. And they were all from different litters. It wasn't like they were bred. They were all from different people. And they were all different ages. When I grew up at my dad's house, I think we had seven at one point.
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There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don't know any of these writers.
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The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.
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My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.
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Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.
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'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.
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I even done a doo-wop version of the Mickey Mouse march.
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My father established the first women's university in the kingdom, abolished slavery, and tried to establish a constitutional monarchy that separates the position of king from that of prime minister.
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The kids think we're wacky. Mum and Dad are in showbiz - they don't know any other way. They've grown up travelling all over the world and are getting a worldly education. My son is 12 and he can speak eloquently on religions and cultures.
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Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.
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When you're looking so hard to get on your path, you're putting up resistance that keeps you from finding it.
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I don't have assistants and things in the studio.
