Connor Jessup Quotes
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
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There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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The fun for me in collaboration is, one, working with other people just makes you smarter; that's proven.
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I appreciate America for all the opportunities it's afforded me.
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I really feel like I've nailed songwriting. It's my specialty; it's what I'm good at.
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There's a spirit of Latina women in all of my work, in the love of the body and the strong sense of self.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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I don't really believe in the paranormal; I'm a skeptic through and through.
