Felicity Jones Quotes
I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like 'The Hunger Games.'
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Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
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Good design should be honest.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.
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My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.
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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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My forte is awkwardness.
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A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.
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I'm on very good terms with all my former wives.
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My next project is 'Venus Vs,' which is a documentary that follows tennis star Venus Williams and her effort to get equal-award pay for women at Wimbledon. Most people don't realize that Venus fought for years to make sure women and men winners of that tennis championship received the same amount in award money.
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I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there.
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I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like 'The Hunger Games.'
