Jacqueline Bisset Quotes

Some people have said that I haven't got the parts I should've got because of the way I look.

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• I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Live
  • Why
  • Cooking

• If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Money
  • Man
  • Care

• For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Government
  • Years
  • Canada

• Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Knowledge
  • Economy

• I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Day
  • Morning
  • Waiting

• Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Women
  • Interesting

• I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Love
  • Strong
  • Own

• I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Know
  • Say
  • Weakness

• Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Copy

• There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Culture
  • Play
  • Popular

• Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

  

  E. B. White
  • People
  • Like
  • Humor

• Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Always
  • Now
  • Been

• Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Government
  • Myself
  • Without

• I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • Government
  • Responsibility

• The world expects India to be one of the leaders in solving the problems of politics and economics. India sits at the high table in most major multilateral deliberations. What India says is heard with attention and seriousness.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • World
  • High
  • Attention

• The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Country
  • Universe
  • Ideas

• The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • World
  • Forever
  • Fence

• Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Home
  • Easy
  • Coffee

• I always worried that the creative well would dry up. I was sure that if I wrote a book a year, I would eventually run out of ideas. Actually, the opposite has been true for me. The more I write, the more ideas come to me and it gets easier.

  

  Kelley Armstrong
  • Up
  • Book
  • True

• The Allegator is the same, as the Crocodile, and differs only in Name.

  

  John Lawson

• 'Love Will Keep Us Together' was a combination of three different singing styles - Al Green, the Beach Boys, and Diana Ross. I loved all these people, and I put their singing styles together and wrote that tune.

  

  Neil Sedaka
  • People
  • Different
  • Together

• I love working with younger people. I feel like we need to catch up with them. In South Asian art it's important to address the fact that the majority of what we see is Hindu, and based in Hinduism, and that it has a social and cultural history. Islam and Muslim culture are often now figured as these outside invaders who came into India, and this is in the service of a more right-wing nationalist discourse that is Islamophobic. And that's part of the worldwide Islamophobia moment that we're having right now.

  

  Chitra Ganesh
  • People
  • Important
  • Art

• If you want to make a movie, there may be many forces trying to pull you down, but really, a lot of it is will power. You can will it into being if you just believe that you are going to make a movie.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • May

• Some people have said that I haven't got the parts I should've got because of the way I look.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • People