Jemima Kirke Quotes

But I'm interested in the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. I hear there are some of the worst Matisses there. I like seeing bad art by good artists. It's inspiring. I'm able to identify with them. It makes them real.

Jemima Kirke

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GoodArtSeeingBadPhiladelphia

I do get a fair amount of scripts; I got 'Frozen River' kinda just that way. I have a hard time turning my back on anybody who says they have something for me.

Melissa Leo

TimeRiverMeBackWayHard

Anyone who's been in my court knows my maxim: 'If you make them, you pay for them!'

Robert Rinder

YouPayBeenMakeCourtKnows

I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?

Ana Castillo

SocietyAestheticYouWhiteWant

We cannot sway extremists with rational thought or with our ideas of right and wrong.

Roxane Gay

IdeasThoughtWrongRightRational

Texas has more effectively capitalized on its opportunities as a border state, and I've always said that I want to look to states that are doing better than we are and replicate those success stories in Arizona.

Doug Ducey

SuccessBorderOpportunitiesBetter

Censorship in all its forms must be challenged.

Deeyah Khan

CensorshipMustChallengedForms

I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen.

Donald Wolfit

PerformanceSaySeenDeliberately

It's man's work. My dad was gone at 4:30 in the morning and home at 8 at night, and he worked underground, and the last mine he worked in was 26 inches high in a lot of places. He liked the engineering of it - he liked the moving the earth and being able to extract something and put it back for reclamation. He enjoyed the whole process.

Chris Stapleton

WorkHomeMorningManMovingNight

When I was younger and my parents used to always slap my hand if I was picking my nose or if I was running around screaming I was told to shut up.

Prince William

ParentsHandAlwaysShut UpUpNose

I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like 'Stop moaning and write something.'

Noel Clarke

SeeingStopWriteUpSomethingJust

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

Rene Descartes

DreamsSleepI AmSameThingsAwake

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

Lyndon B. Johnson

BelieveCreditGoMatterAnything

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