Jessie Buckley Quotes
I started doing musicals, but the acting bug bit when I did a four-week Shakespeare workshop.
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The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.
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It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.
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Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.
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I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.
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If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.
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All the guys on 'Breaking Bad' are really gentle and gorgeous creatures.
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I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
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I think the more web video there is, the more press you'll get, as well as all the people who want to tell stories that haven't been told before but can't do that on TV because different stories are a risk.
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I enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginning a new book. It's like being someone else.
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I don't do facials - I don't really enjoy people picking at my skin. I'd rather a dermatologist who's a doctor for that do that.
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The philosophy of Buddhism is connected to everything. So it probably does have some connection with acting, yes.
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Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life' was on constant shuffle throughout my childhood. I remember my dad playing some stellar Max Roach albums as well.
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Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
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When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs, he forgot the copperheads and the assassin... in the dust, in the cool tombs.
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And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
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Just some good ol' boys,Never meaning no harm.Beats all you never sawBeen in trouble with the lawSince the day they were born.
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Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.
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We were all born of flesh, in a flare of pain,We do not remember the red roots whence we rose,But we know that we rose and walked, that after a whileWe shall lie down again.
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Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my questions with readiness. Some present in review before me the events of past ages; others reveal to me the secrets of Nature. These teach me how to live, and those how to die; these dispel my melancholy by their mirth, and amuse me by their sallies of wit. Some there are who prepare my soul to suffer everything, to desire nothing, and to become thoroughly acquainted with itself. In a word, they open the door to all the arts and sciences.
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I wanted to work in the arts. My dream come true would be to be an architectural historian and work with the royal palaces and all the fabulous art collections. But I'm not committed enough.
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Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms. Well then, think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affect us more or less intensely.
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Being in the public eye, there will always be negatives. Those dark aspects will always be there and, so too, those things that will try and tear you down, but I have made the choice not to engage with them. I'm not going to let them affect me or destroy me.
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Children's authors have to pick words that reflect the spirit of a book and convey its message but also words that light children up, that children will recognize. Words that inspire and comfort. Words that challenge yet don't patronize. Words that, well, mean something to them.
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I started doing musicals, but the acting bug bit when I did a four-week Shakespeare workshop.
