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 love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director.
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Your character is the harvest of your habits.
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Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone.
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There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.
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The food industry profits from providing poor quality foods with poor nutritional value that people eat a lot of.
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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.
