Zoe Lister-Jones Quotes
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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I got to see Jack White. I love his new album. There's a song on the album called 'I Think I Should Go to Sleep' that my son loves. We play it on a loop around the house, and he just bounces around.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid.
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
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I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful Irish writers, and we have quite a number of Irish women directors. But there could be more, and there should be more.
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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
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A long, deep breath is the equivalent of a full stop and the key to centering.
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When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.
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I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.
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I think that there is a sort of spiritual power that is translating into our bodies as we perform. Performers give, and giving is so important. It can heal. That is my experience, anyway.
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Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
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I'm a health-food junkie, so all of my food is a splurge, money-wise!
