Jessie Buckley Quotes
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.
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How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I'd thought I'd had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
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That's what technology does to you - makes you lazy but allows you to innovate.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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When you shoot a film, you have very little time to waste, and I try to go into the character as soon as possible and stay there as much as I can.
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Anybody in the spotlight can get lost in that if they are not careful.
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At this point, I don’t need my records to be Number One or sell as many as this person or that person. That’s not fundamentally important - I don’t believe that sustains you.
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We are politically correct, we are afraid to address the problem. Because if you address the problem like I do, people like you call us evil extreme, or you're being taken to court or you will get death threats in your life.
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I've been incredibly fortunate to have so many people believe in me.
