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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Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
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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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As a leader, you sit at a different level of perspective from your team, either with line of sight higher and across the organization structure or connected at more senior levels with your clients and partners.
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I'm not sexist, I'm just a realist.
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When we started the e-commerce, nobody believed that China would have e-commerce because people believed in 'guang-shi,' face-to-face, and all kinds of network in traditional ways. There's no trust system in China.
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I'm not a car person. Three years after 'The Da Vinci Code' came out, I still had my old, rusted Volvo. And people are like, 'Why don't you have a Maserati?' It never occurred to me. It wasn't a priority for me. I just didn't care.
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Putting out a book is absolutely a lesson in vulnerability because it doesn't matter how much of an audience you have. Some people who have giant audiences can't sell books because those audiences don't feel like they need to give them their money.
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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.
