Felicity Jones Quotes
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.
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You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.
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The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.
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I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I was a little girl, I was told, 'When we are gone' - when you're a kid, you never think they'll ever be gone - 'you have to keep the music alive, the Carter Family songs, and add your own songs.'
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I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.
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I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.
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I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've written a lot of stories. I've got dozens of stories I've written that no one's ever seen.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere.
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I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
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The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
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The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
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Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.
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I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.
