Jacqueline Bisset Quotes
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
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What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
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Your best teacher is your last mistake.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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When I work with other people, I don't have to do that - it's because I love to do it and I want to do it.
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I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
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To survive is to win.
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The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'
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We often compare the experience of writing a book to that of playing God. It is up to us, and only us, to determine what happens to the people we invent. It is for us alone to determine what is good and bad, just and unjust, appropriate and inappropriate for the worlds we create. I love that about writing books.
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For me, integrity is the consistency of words and actions. Part of the way that you do that is to ask people questions on some of the most difficult issues that you confront. 'Take me through where you felt you had to compromise your values.'
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Sometimes you want something really serious that makes you feel emotional and makes you think, and sometimes you do just want a pop song. What I love about Taylor Swift is that she offers both.
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I like working really fast. The best ideas are the first ones that come into your head - so why bother thinking of any more?
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First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.
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My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.
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I have emotional strings that tie me to Europe.
