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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I'm a big history buff so to walk the streets...the ancient world like that was pretty astounding.
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War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.
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History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.
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I come from a family of teasers myself. My grandfather was from Liverpool, and he had a dry sense of humor, and he would tease us terribly. My brother Beau was so skilled in his teasing that he could get a rise out of me by simply pointing at me.
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India needs a change - it cannot be ruled by 80-year-olds and by people who have done nothing for it.
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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!
