Jodhi May Quotes
As an actor, I think it's really important to be as anonymous as possible. It's your job to convince people that you are somebody else, and so any recognition I'd get away from the screen - well, it's not something I actively seek. To be honest with you, I'm surprised anybody does.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.
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Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.
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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum.
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I came up with the term 'mindfreak' because I didn't like the word 'magician.' I felt like I wanted to coin a term that would be basically the reaction to my art. It would be a mindfreak and so that's why I came up with that. But, many people say I'm really a student of humanity and psychology.
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As an actor, I think it's really important to be as anonymous as possible. It's your job to convince people that you are somebody else, and so any recognition I'd get away from the screen - well, it's not something I actively seek. To be honest with you, I'm surprised anybody does.
