Jacqueline Bisset Quotes
At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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I'm a closet nerd. I love to study history and visit museums.
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Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.
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You never get quite down to the bottom of the barrel, but we are much higher than that at the present time. There is quite a lot left in the barrel that could be explained by them. If they have some weapons, if they have some anthrax, they should deliver that.
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Whenever I have time and am compelled to watch anything, it's usually something I'm not in!
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At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.
