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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My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.
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The one thing I've always done as an author is talk to my publicists. Because they have all the best stories - and they have all the dirt on other, more famous and important writers. They're not supposed to talk about it, but sometimes you can get awesome little tidbits from them.
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Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
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Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.
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As long as I live I will have control over my being.
