Zoe Lister-Jones Quotes
I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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To grow, people need to be challenged.
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I have never pretended to be a legal scholar, but when scores of lawyers are lining up to agree with the Supreme Court that the president has the power to make choices when it comes to whom to deport and whom to let stay, then I tend to agree with them.
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I remember telling people I booked this job; they were like, 'What is it called?' I was like, 'Peaky Blinders,' and they were like, 'What?' It sounds ridiculous, but I like it because there's an instant intrigue about the name.
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I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
