Jessica Stroup Quotes
I'm Southern, but I need to be out making my own money, and impacting the world outside of my house.
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I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
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The challenge that so many people have is not knowing how to take that first step of reaching out to another person for help.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.
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We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair.
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If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.
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The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.
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Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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And other spirits there are standing apartUpon the forehead of the age to come;These, these will give the world another heart,And other pulses. Hear ye not the humOf mighty workings in a distant mart?Listen awhile ye nations, and be dumb.
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I'm Southern, but I need to be out making my own money, and impacting the world outside of my house.
