Leslie Jamison Quotes
One of the big ways in which I felt my own writing life shaped by recovery had to do with my relationship to other people's stories. And one of the things I loved most about recovery was the way in which, in meetings and through fellowship, you are constantly kind of paying attention to lives outside of your own.
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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I really like Caravan Palace's electro swing stuff. They incorporate the electronic, but when you see them live, they're all on stage playing live music. They're all playing their instruments. They drop these beats with the DJs that are so incredible.
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I made several short films with very little dialogue. I'm still not a fan of talking heads. My stories are told with images as much as possible.
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Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day.
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I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.
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One of the big ways in which I felt my own writing life shaped by recovery had to do with my relationship to other people's stories. And one of the things I loved most about recovery was the way in which, in meetings and through fellowship, you are constantly kind of paying attention to lives outside of your own.
