Julia Kent Quotes

I find that I'm always struggling with the noise of the city. When I get a good take, there will be a horn or a siren or something. So it makes me very conscious of outside sounds, which in a way maybe led me to incorporate the field recordings.

Julia Kent Antony and the Johnsons

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• My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Guy

• I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • People
  • Life
  • Struggle

• Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Great
  • May
  • Job

• Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Writing
  • Wish
  • Struggle

• Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • World
  • Best
  • Powerful

• Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Relationship

• I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
  • Long
  • True

• Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Love
  • Struggle
  • For Him

• Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Freedom
  • Blind
  • Conscious

• When you're in the head of the character, you feel less self-conscious. If I was just being me, I would feel so exposed and be like, 'Why is there a huge camera in my face?' But, when you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • True
  • Person
  • Playing

• Getting older and adjusting to all the things that biologically happen to you is not easy to do and is a constant struggle and adjustment.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • You
  • Struggle
  • Getting Older

• During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • People
  • Women
  • America

• What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its own survival.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Real
  • Struggle

• In life, we all struggle and strive to make progress. When will you know you've reached success? A billion dollars is a good sign, but there's a better one - humility.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Life
  • Good
  • Success

• I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me; we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Mind
  • Love
  • Power

• It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Different
  • Present
  • Nothing

• Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Freedom
  • Conscious
  • Become

• In the United States, I always say that what makes America exceptional is not the fact that we’re perfect, it's the fact that we struggle to improve. We're self-critical. We work to live up to our highest values and ideals, knowing that we're not always going to achieve them perfectly, but we keep on trying to perfect our union.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• I do think of 'The Idiot,' in a way, as a self-standing book about a certain struggle to make meaning, the struggle for a girl to find meaning outside of the romance plot.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Book
  • Girl
  • Struggle

• My pride and immaturity caused me to make things more of a struggle than they had to be. I can always blame others or circumstances, but the truth was that my own sinful pride led to more stress than anything else.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Struggle
  • Pride
  • Stress

• My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Long
  • Looks
  • Hands

• When I was 16, I wanted to look like Lord Byron. It's not really a haircut so much as a hair-not-cut, but I've never changed it. It's a bit Byron, a bit Don Juan DeMarco and other things that I aspire to be.

  

  Jeremy Clarkson
  • Hair

• I find that I'm always struggling with the noise of the city. When I get a good take, there will be a horn or a siren or something. So it makes me very conscious of outside sounds, which in a way maybe led me to incorporate the field recordings.

  

  Julia Kent Antony and the Johnsons
  • Struggle
  • Cities
  • Conscious