Jemima Kirke Quotes

#1. I have to remember that for the most part people will see me for what I do, not what I say I do.

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#2. That's what I paint, I paint people. They're portraits, but you won't always be pleased with the way you look in my paintings. Which is fine, I guess. Unless you're buying it, and it's of your kid!

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#3. People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.

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#4. You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.

Barack Obama

#5. I've never been one to just do what I'm told. I don't say that necessarily with pride, it's just something that has gotten me in trouble before.

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#6. Every uncompromising ideology reduces faith to an idolatry,

Walter Brueggemann

#7. I know acting is not impersonating, but I'm good with impressions. I can do impressions of people I know, and people I've been, and roles that I've acted before.

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#8. I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he's a true artist. He's not hilarious first; I think he is a real artist, and I also think he's got an amazing sense of humor.

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#9. Too big for a youth, too small for a grown man,

Alexandre Dumas

#10. It is in getting to know my Bible that I get to know Jesus.

Alistair Begg

#11. We've got a cultural issue in America. We've got to change the whole way the issue is looked at. That's the mission. Some in the political process don't have enough patience for that, and I probably don't either.

George W. Bush

#12. I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time.

Bob Dylan

#13. I go to Florida sometimes for vacation. I actually really like Florida. It's a weird place, it's surreal. It's so close, but you feel like you're in another world or on an island.

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#14. The final lesson is that 'reality' is always the way to go and that acceptance is the only way to get there.

Oli Anderson

#15. I don't have the passion for acting that actors might have.

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#16. My opinions of which of my works are good are vastly different than other people's. There is one that I'm obsessed with but I swear ... no one else has ever even commented on it. So I'm a bit shy to draw attention to it.

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#17. Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts.

Joshua Ferris

#18. By the way, I'm funniest when I'm not being funny. I'm better to laugh at than with, pretty much.

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#19. Portraiture keeps me humble. It's simple and straightforward. There is nothing more interesting I can make up than the figure sitting right in front of me.

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#20. I have a handful of tattoos that I really want to put on people that I can't find anyone to let me give them to.

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#21. I've had a baby. I've had an abortion.

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#22. A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.

Young Jeezy

#23. Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#24. The mercy of heaven is greater than you or your sins. Let your sadness be dispersed by its glorious beams. Do not let apathy prevent you from seizing the moment for repentance. It matters not how wickedness has flourished. Divine grace can flourish still more abundantly.

Christopher St John

#25. I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is. We as MC's criticize each other. That's the nature of hip-hop.

Nas

#26. I've been painting and making things since I was little.

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#27. I mean, I have worked out. I've always worked out a little, you know, when I felt it was, like ... time.

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#28. Acting is secondary - I don't feel like it's going to stick around because it's not something I want to do forever. My art has always been my top priority and I have far more experience in that field than I do in film.

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#29. We think we know."
"Know? That's worse than an atom bomb, and always was.

William Golding

#30. I come from a family of all women and one boy, my brother. We're all women and we're all precocious and opinionated and like to have fun and we always had friends in the house and we were always, like, half-naked.

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#31. When you're literally carrying a child you can cut back on bad habits.

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#32. I think I did a lot of really stupid stuff really quickly in my twenties and that sort of led me to want to sort of just relax a little bit. Relax a lot.

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#33. Being humble and sweet is the hardest thing you can do.

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#34. Chicks cannot hold their smoke, dat's what it is.

Anthony Michael Hall

#35. I want lots of kids and I want a garden and I hope to stay married to my husband. I hope to be working in some way that fulfils me.

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#36. 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.

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#37. I don't have that drive to be in this field, climbing up, doing bit parts in movies to make a big movie. But I'm lucky I get to also do acting - it's fun. I should probably just take an acting class on the weekends - that would be enough for me.

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