Felicity Jones Quotes
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.
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I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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A writer is a palmist, reading the lines of the planet.
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A Movie That Costs Only $1.6 Million Doesn't Have to Be a Cultural Event to Turn a Profit.
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As an actor, you always use the tools of who you are and your experience of what you have to offer.
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I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.
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I try not to agonize over my lyrics, though, because that can come across in them. Some lyrics come more easily than others and some you have to spend a lot of time on, but I think you have to watch that you don't take the life out of them by worrying too much.
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I was thinking 'Love Story', obviously, was a romantic film of that time.
