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Jessica Raine Quotes

I don't want to sound too bleeding heart, because I know how lucky I've been, but I never knew how hard it was to be the lead in a television show.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: british
Birth: May 20, 1982

Topics

Heart Television Know Want Lucky

I'm sure fame is yet to come; however, it's not my ultimate goal. I really just want to be able to tell stories, and create, and do it for a living.

Goal Create Fame Want Living Tell

Once established with Great Britain, it would not be difficult, with moderation and prudence, to establish permanent peace with the rest of the world, when our most sanguine hopes of prosperity may be realized.

John C. Calhoun

Great Peace World Rest Prosperity

When you make a movie, it's just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

People You Personal Out Something

I believe in my training camp. I believe in my coaches. I believe in what I do. I believe in the work I put in.

Work Training Believe I Believe Put

Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader has a clue to what is going on.

Habit Influence Narrative Going Clue

A small foot in China, no different from a tiny waist in Victorian England, represented the height of female refinement. For families with marriageable daughters, foot size translated into its own form of currency and a means of achieving upward mobility. The most desirable bride possessed a three-inch foot, known as a 'golden lotus.'

Small Bride Achieving Golden Height

I'm embarrassed to reveal that I never went to CBGB's in the '80s. I was never cool enough to be a punk, and I wouldn't have had the stamina, or the discipline, for straight-edge.

Stacey D'Erasmo

Discipline Cool Enough Never Punk

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

Life Science Mathematics Genius You

We weren't rich by any means, but we had each other, so we were rich in family. When you don't have a lot, it just fuels that creativity. So it manifested in us doing characters of people in the neighborhood or doing impersonations of Mom and Dad. The comedy bug, it takes over.

Family Creativity People Mom Rich

Acting is just about the script and the director giving you notes. In improv, it's more about trusting that the group will carry you.

Giving You Acting Group Will More

If you think about stripping away 80 percent of the things that don't matter and focusing on the the 20 percent that will actually make a difference, I think you'll find great results even in the toughest of situations and the harshest of environments.

Great Think Make A Difference You

When I was young, I went to the Sinai and worked as a waitress.

Young Waitress Worked

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