Joan Cusack Quotes
It was fun; you know, at this point in my life it's like, I want to do stuff that's meaningful.
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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
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The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
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Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
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The key is that I'm trying to keep growing and trying to keep learning and deepen my connection in every way, in my life, in my work. That's what I do when I look at a role.
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Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.
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We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.
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Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader.
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I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.
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Music is everywhere and in everything! I draw my inspiration from the day to day activities of my life!
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We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.
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I have so much fun because I love to meet the women who wear my shoes and meet the clients. That, to me, is the best part - getting to know the faces of the people who actually wear my shoes and getting to have a conversation with them.
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.
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I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
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India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.
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Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible.
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My goal would be to find a big, fat subject that would occupy me to the end of my life, and when I finish it, I'll die. What's agony is starting; I hate starting them. I just want to keep writing now and end when it ends.
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I turn left for a living.
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There is nothing more I love more than being in a throw-down on a Saturday night.
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Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.
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As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.
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It was fun; you know, at this point in my life it's like, I want to do stuff that's meaningful.
