Jessica Stockholder Quotes
I work in response to the limitations of any situation and in relationship to what's possible.
Quotes to Explore
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy.
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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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There is no one true church.
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Something about 'Battlestar' that I didn't realize when I took the job was this whole bubble aspect of closing people in and seeing what they do.
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We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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I totally consider Fishbowl my full time job - I have to say I freaking love doing this blog. I just enjoy the medium so much; I love the fact that it requires me to read amazing stuff by hilarious and talented people and forces me to know what's going on in the world.
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I think St. Jude helped me achieve some miracles in my life - that's why I wear the medallion in my left ear and never take it out.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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Before I became the president of AT&T's consumer division, I was running strategy and our internet services, so I was the president of one of the first internet service providers, ISPs, AT&T Worldnet, and running our internet protocol product development as well. So I knew a lot about what was going on with the internet.
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You can't pay for healthcare if we're sending a trillion dollars a year to dictators.
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We don't work with anyone.
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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.
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I work in response to the limitations of any situation and in relationship to what's possible.
