Jessie Mueller Quotes
As an actor, you always use the tools of who you are and your experience of what you have to offer.
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
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The stratosphere is a hostile place.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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I never mind talking about my dad. I'm proud of who he is, and being his son is one of the things I'm most proud of. To be constantly compared to someone so brilliant, who happens to be your dad, is cool.
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
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I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.
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I've always danced. I've always been around it.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
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I'm the easiest person to make fun of.
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If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it.
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I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.'s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and global current events on its distinguished platform. 'Guardian U.S.' brings the 'Guardian's hard-hitting investigative brand to a new focus on American news and opinion.
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Sports should not become routine. It should be about passion.
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I support basic research, which can lead to discoveries that change our world, expand our horizons and save lives.
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While the war in Iraq was raging, I spent some time in neighbouring Jordan, meeting with Iraqi refugees who fled their country to try to find some place of safety. I interviewed many families about what had happened to them and what they did as a result.
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It takes mystical insight to see the beauty and innocence in each other, even when that is not what we are showing to the world. That is why God is needed in intimate relationships, to move us beyond the perceptions that can so often poison love.
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In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read - and they have been many, big, and heavy - I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience. She says,
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As an actor, you always use the tools of who you are and your experience of what you have to offer.
