Jessica Stockholder Quotes
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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I remember the moment I first became aware of aging. I was 30. I looked down at my knees, and the skin above them had become a little loose. And I thought, 'And so it begins!'
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Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.
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I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
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I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
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The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
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Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.
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It's interesting: I've been doing this since I was 17, and it's kind of weird to see yourself grow up on television.
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My parents were hippies. I'm the eldest of eight children.
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We all have those things that even in the midst of stress and disarray, they energize us and give us renewed strength and purpose. These are our passions.
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You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position.
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I am human like everyone else. I am aware that there are people who look up to me. When mistakes are made, they aren't intentional, and I constantly push myself to be a better person.
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I'm training once a day, four days a week, and just loving life.
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Against destiny I fulfilled my duty . Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.
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do Not create anything, it will bemisinterpreted. it will not change.it will follow you the rest of your life.
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It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.
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There isn't another other sex. (p. 254)
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I love sitting through long things. I mean, 'Gone With the Wind' I will sit through; I love sitting somewhere for four hours, for anything. I love being on a train. I love sitting down for four hours. I think it's the most wonderful thing to be able to sit somewhere and concentrate on something for more than two hours.
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My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family.
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I don't fetishize objects.
