Jacqueline Bisset Quotes
There is an eternal humanity that crosses through all people, and it's more interesting often when it's about struggle - not people with champagne glasses.
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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I don't think there's much a person could say about me. My gangster's never been on trial.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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I think recharging is important, absolutely. Every now and then, you need maybe a couple of weeks to just chill out and let your emotions balance themselves out a little bit.
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We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.
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We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods.
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I think that just because you've been through an experience doesn't make you the ultimate arbiter of what it means. We figure things out; we work things out through the help of other people who can engage with us but also be intelligently critical.
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I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in the States.
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The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.
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There is an eternal humanity that crosses through all people, and it's more interesting often when it's about struggle - not people with champagne glasses.
