Leslie Jamison Quotes
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I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.
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My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
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I don't find it hard to direct myself. I can easily think of me as a horrible performer or a good performer. I work with actors who cannot stand watching or looking at themselves, which is not my case. I can have an eye and perspective on whether I'm terrible or good enough for me.
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Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle.
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You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I try to live a really normal life. I definitely don't try to make it into any more craziness than it is.
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For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.
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In 1985, I saw a tape of myself where my eyes were puffy. I looked very tired and bedraggled and not as youthful as I would like to have been.
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If the rat had not looked over his shoulder, perhaps his heart would not have broken. And it is possible, then, that I would not have a story to tell. But, reader, he did look.
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The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.
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A luminous body when obscured by a dense atmosphere will appear smaller; as may be seen by the moon or sun veiled by fogs.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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I studied Judaism a lot. I studied religion in general, and I have never imposed my Judaism on my kids. They are what they want to be. I think... you must care for others. That's the correct religion, I think.
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I'm always going with my visceral reaction when I read a script. I am more drawn to characters who are conflicted, and in developing a character exploration. If it's a baddie, I'm rarely intrigued, and if it's a goody two-shoes - too much of a good guy - I'm not, either.
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I spent some time, six months or so, ruminating about the characters before I sat down to write 'Faith'.
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Kitchen competition shows are so action-packed. They just get your adrenaline pumping.
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Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek.
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I don't mind being it [age 60], I just don't like saying it.
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People always ask me, 'Is there a rivalry between the Nickelodeon and Disney stars? Do you guys hate each other?' Like everyone has to be on one team. If you're a Selena Gomez fan, you can't be a Victoria Justice fan. We're both half-Latin, and people put us in the same category.
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The story of getting better can be just as compelling as the story of falling apart.
