Artemisia Gentileschi Quotes
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The American dream is about freedom.
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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Act because you love to act.
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Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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I will go running when I'm stressed out. The running helps, but more than anything, I'll put music on and then I'll run. I'll cry and get it all out.
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Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
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It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously.
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Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. When one gets there the result is unrewarding, but the process is instructive and entertaining.
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I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.
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I feel so lucky to have lived the life that I did and to be surrounded by the people I love. I've got eight kids, and they're always laughing all the time. It's like music to my ears. I think that my frame of mind these days is probably happier than I've ever been, which is kind of odd, coming close to the finish line.
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I'm not a natural employer. I live very privately, and we like our privacy at home. To be sitting and talking with your wife or your family and to have somebody walking around and you're ignoring them, I couldn't handle that at all. I can barely handle a cleaning lady coming in every so often.
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As long as I live I will have control over my being.
