Jessie J Quotes
As an artist, I try and be controversial, and I have been a bit offensive at times. I have a view on the burka, and I'm sure a few of the Muslim girls and their families would have a view of me on stage in next to nothing!
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Humanity will live as long as there are humans.
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Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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The fundamental vision hasn't changed. What does change is how you get there, because there are still problems you have to figure out.
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I went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.
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Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.
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For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.
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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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Events are the best opportunities to experiment with clothes, as we have to stick to a character in films.
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I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
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I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.
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All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.
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She saw time naïvely as a road laid out. You walked ahead, and you got somewhere. If you were lucky, you got somewhere worth getting to.
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Ethnic sensitivity both on-camera and behind it demonstrates a corporate understanding of the benefits of diversity and a genuine respect for the audiences' needs.
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I'm not what you'd call a fearless type of person.
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The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even though the aura of scientific processes and results is often appropriated by other intellectuals.
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What lists and awards don't measure - and I feel this strongly - is the lasting value of any work of art. They're a snapshot of a moment, and one should always consider their judgments in that context.
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As an artist, I try and be controversial, and I have been a bit offensive at times. I have a view on the burka, and I'm sure a few of the Muslim girls and their families would have a view of me on stage in next to nothing!
