Victoria Jackson Quotes
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
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We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.
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I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
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People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.
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Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.
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I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.
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Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure out who I am. I'm really lucky that I get to make a living at acting.
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We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
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Well that's actually happened to me a couple of times... but I really think that men, when it comes to falling in love, are less... I guess you could say less aggressive.
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Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.
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America is a country of immigrants. It's what makes America unique.
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Movies take a long time because movies take a long damn time to put work into. Whereas music, you don't have as much time. I didn't realize that.
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I only wore makeup when I went onstage.
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I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.
