Eva Jessye Quotes
You should not suffer the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop.
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture. I can think of a lot of comedy screenplays; Woody Allen has had numerous nominations for his screenplays. But most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important.
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When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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Nothing is a better icebreaker than a great joke.
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Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.
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We print 37 million copies, and we found out about the unfortunate news as we were putting the issue to bed.
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There should be a place and the space for all pop.
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People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.
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I have transcended that phase in my intellectual growth where I discover humour in simple freakishness. What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since wherever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapours rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter.
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Remember, our hearts are one. Even when we are at war with each other, our hearts are always beating in unison.
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'A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.'
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Really if you look at my filmography, there's something for everyone!
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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
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We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
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The best vacation is still a book, a renewable ticket to places real and imaginary.
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You should not suffer the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop.
