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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If you're living off credit-card advances and ramen noodles, a buyout offer might be too hard to resist. And you'll be even smarter the second time around.
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British people are surprised that I'm British!
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I know every actor says this, but the people behind the camera are great. They always have answers.
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It's weird because I am accessible to people on Twitter, and I can choose to read good things or mean things, and people can reach out to me directly and tell me how much they hate me or love the song. It's a very strange new paradigm as an artist to find yourself among this kind of connectivity.
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I've written some happy songs but I can't ever play them in public because everybody will just start throwing up.
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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.
