Felicity Jones Quotes
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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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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I love working with women.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
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The first thing we need to understand when we think about globalization is that it has benefited an enormous number of people who are not part of the global elite.
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I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.
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The second thing we have to do is to make sure that all of us think about how we approach our elections and our democracy not only to secure them from vote tampering, but also to make sure that we understand when propaganda is being churned through the system.
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Yes, there's something dangerous about turning people into token social activists. I was thinking about this recently with our pop-culture feminism, when feminism is such a buzzword in the media now. We're covering it in a way that we haven't before, but also in a way that's way more surface level. And while I think that there's some danger in that, I also think it's a great gateway for some people.
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We are going to have a long period where people are accustomed or conditioned to what's going on now with the raping of the Fourth Amendment.
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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.
