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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You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart - you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don't hurt so much.
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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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I'm optimistic, though. Now, with the Arab Spring, I think that people in the region are beginning to overturn some of these clichés, and Western editors are starting to catch up. We're seeing some exceptions to the stereotypes, like Elizabeth Rubin's great piecein Newsweek, "The Feminists in the Middle of Tahrir Square." But an article like that shouldn't be the exception. It should be the rule.
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No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.
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People have even said my father paid Aditya Chopra to make a film for me. It's illogical. People say what they have to say.
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To choose one sock from each of infinitely many pairs of socks requires the Axiom of Choice, but for shoes the Axiom is not needed.
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The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War.
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I don't fetishize objects.
