Jennifer Jason Leigh Quotes

My mom's a screenwriter, and before that, she was an actress, and my father was an actor; my stepfather was a director, so I was on sets a lot as a kid. I loved the magic of the set. You walk in, and it's a living room, and you walk outside, and it's just a piece of wood held up by another piece of wood.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

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Growing up, I never felt like the pretty girl.

Jessie Mueller

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I don't really like conflict at all, and I really find conflict pretty devastating. I try to avoid it at all costs.

Jessica Williams

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As far as being onstage, commanding presence, I've always looked up to people like Axl Rose and Freddie Mercury and Paul Stanley - the rock gods. I've always wanted to be able to achieve that level of commanding nature onstage and really leading people at a show.

Andy Biersack

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Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.

Mel Carnahan

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I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

John Templeton

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I'm not very ambitious at all.

Amy Winehouse

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Turning back the inequality revolution may be difficult. But that would certainly help more families - at almost all income levels - than turning back the gender revolution.

Stephanie Coontz

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Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead.

Tommy Bolt

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The best meal I've had was in Tavarua, an island in Fiji. It was just before sunset. A bunch of guys had just caught all this yellow fin tuna; they literally brought this huge wooden table down to the sand, pulled the tuna from the boat, dropped it on top of the table, pulled the skin off and sliced the tuna up.

Rob Machado

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I just want to win and carrying on winning for Liverpool.

Roberto Firmino

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I don't really ever worry about what anyone else does and I certainly don't worry about what anyone else says about me.

Mike Tice

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I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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