Jessica Williams Quotes
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A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
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Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.
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My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.
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It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
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I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.
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All cult leaders are very good at supplying people with what they want and are missing in their lives, so they feel loved and that they belong.
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If you're lucky enough to be involved in a film that's about something very real and that you hope will continue to hold up in 20 years' time it just gives you more energy and makes it feel all the more worthwhile.
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I'm human, just like anybody else.
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As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.
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I don't think many people can say they've been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.
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I live in Brooklyn; I live in Clinton Hill. I love it there.
