Jonathan Anderson Quotes
Wood carving is such an amazing skill and very underrated; once you cut it, it's hard to go back.
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
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Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.
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If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!
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Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
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I am not stupid - I'm not young, and I'm not beautiful.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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The good thing about being an actress is that it's very children-friendly. I can work for three months, and then I can have six months off.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. I can spend hours researching any such amazing lady, from Ching Shih to Hatshepsut to Boudica to Zenobia.
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In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made. Because I would not want to blame anyone else but myself if anything goes wrong.
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As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.
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I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.
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Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
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I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight.
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What made me so brave? Maybe it was being the middle kid of 11, and we all had to share one bathroom. New underwear? I never discovered that until I got into college.
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I can guarantee that back in the day, if a woman was left alone and she needed to eat, she would have to hunt. It's not biological imperative that says men have to ask us out; it's social conditioning. And we can change it.
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People like to act like we don't have a legacy of racism here. I think people get really uncomfortable with it. We know that we can't change it unless we address that.
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I had a feeling about directing Cocoon II: The Return. At first I wasn't too interested because it was a sequel. Then I read the script and was excited by the relationships and its mystic quality.
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Wood carving is such an amazing skill and very underrated; once you cut it, it's hard to go back.
