Jacqueline Bisset Quotes
You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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The genesis of Public Interest Litigation in listening to the voice of the voiceless and giving access to the poor, the marginalised, and the weak is a unique experiment to be lauded.
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Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.
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I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.
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I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.
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One of the side-effects of having your work appear in a public forum such as this is that people often email me asking for advice on how to break into writing, presumably figuring that if a drooling gum-brain like me can scrape a living witlessly pawing at a keyboard, there's hope for anyone.
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Well, acting has been a dream of mine since I can remember; being in the movies and acting, having those experiences.
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Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
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Perspective is the most important thing to have in life.
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By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.
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You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.
