Jessica Williams Quotes
When you see the way some people write women, especially in studio movies, it's like, 'Sorry! Sorry for being alive!' Women are so apologetic.
Quotes to Explore
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?
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I love books.
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
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I love Channing Tatum!
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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I don't like having to be pushed into a box.
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I just can't read music.
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There were many years when I was hand-to-mouth and didn't know how I was gonna make rent. I've done every job under the sun, from busing tables, temping, and working in factories to SAT prep and detailing cars. So to be able to make a living where all I do is write is absolutely liberating.
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I think every filmmaker in Europe would be lying if they didn't say one day they just wanted to make a movie here in Hollywood or at least try it. It's very different from European filmmaking, because here it's like a real industry. It's very much about money and making money, which I think is fine, because it's very expensive to make movies.
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The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.
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I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.
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When you see the way some people write women, especially in studio movies, it's like, 'Sorry! Sorry for being alive!' Women are so apologetic.
