Jessica Stockholder Quotes
Focused attention necessarily has an edge, but as focus changes, the edge shifts.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
Damian Lewis
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I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.
B. D. Wong
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It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.
Ed Wood
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
Nan Hayworth
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
Omari Hardwick
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You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.
Camila Alves
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
Laura Mvula
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
Patrick deWitt
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
Karl Shapiro
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
Iman
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I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.
Olivia Colman
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I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.
LaToya London
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Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I owe it all to Jesus.
Aaron Neville
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I never thought about money; otherwise, I would have left aged 26 when Real Madrid and Barcelona wanted me.
Francesco Totti
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
Tammy Duckworth
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I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
Imelda Staunton
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
OMI
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I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.
Hannibal Buress
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I'd rather wear black than bright florals like most fat ladies do.
Louise Wilson
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It's still a political statement to stand on stage as a person of color and be excellent. We still need those images to combat the narrative we're often fed - as someone innately inferior or inexorably linked with lack.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
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Well, you know, I love being an entrepreneur and when I did 'Celebrity Apprentice' with Mr. Trump, he taught us a lot about starting businesses.
NeNe Leakes
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The notion that we need a higher power, that’s more a human failing than a reflection of reality. The universe pays no attention to what we need. Truth is what it is, and the inconveniences it might cause us don’t change anything.
Jack McDevitt
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Focused attention necessarily has an edge, but as focus changes, the edge shifts.
Jessica Stockholder