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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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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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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When I played a club in Salt Lake City, I complained to the crowd about the low turnout. It's always good to berate the people who paid to see you because you're upset about the people who didn't show up. It's called misplaced anger, and without it, I wouldn't have an act.
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I have to be honest with you: When the FBI let me out of prison early to advise the agency on preventing fraud, I wasn't a changed person. I wasn't rehabilitated. But when I started working with the FBI, one of the most ethical groups of men and women in the world, I couldn't help but have some of that character rub off on me.
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We are the party of the Czechoslovak proletariat and our general headquarters are in Moscow.
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It's hard to find a way to be good to your husband, be good to your kid, and be good to yourself.
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Gadhafi opponents included many 'good guys,' but they never received the support necessary to govern a new Libya after he was gone.
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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.
