Jessica Chastain Quotes

I think, in the past, being brave - being powerful, being strong - were qualities that people associated with being masculine. And I think... no, I don't think - I know that now we're realizing they can be feminine, too.

Jessica Chastain

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I was not an attractive child.

Joan Rivers

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My process is pretty messy, and there's a lot of creative destruction in it. When I set out to write something, I'll write some passages from it just to figure out who these characters are, how they talk. And I have a dim sense of what it's about and where it's going to go, but I know that's going to change, too.

Jesse Andrews

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I don't believe in a particular god, but I believe in the unknown. I believe that there's something bigger than us.

Jenova Chen

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The urge that most people feel to have kids is the exact same as the urge that I have to not have kids. I do not want to raise a child.

Jen Kirkman

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I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.

Robert Mapplethorpe

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I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

Andy Serkis

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New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to the door was denied entrance. The brown bag criterion survives as a metaphor for how the black cultural elite quite literally establishes caste along color lines within black life.

Michael Eric Dyson

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So when I realised I could sing for a living - do what I loved and be paid for it - I thought, 'This is unbelievable. Unbelievable!' And that feeling has never left me.

Tom Jones

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Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.

Robert Webb

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I wasn't put on the Earth only to be an investor. That wasn't my only thing in life. The problem is that as you get good at something and you keep getting better at something, more and more people just know you as that, and they have you in that box.

Chris Sacca

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I don't believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an action hero.

Colin Trevorrow

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I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.

Willie Nelson

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