Jacqueline Emerson Quotes
I never dreamed that I would hear 10,000 people screaming when I stepped out onto a stage. Well, that's not entirely true. I dreamed about it but in a performing-on-the-stage-at-Staples-Center-or-Madison-Square-Garden context. But never in a I'm-in-a-movie-that-hasn't-even-come-out-yet one.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
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I don't put people down. I build people up. That's how I always wanna be looked at.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb.
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One day, when I was 33, I shifted. I suddenly saw acting as a higher calling. I understood that my goal was to serve the play. And I realized if an actor can make audiences' hearts resonate or make them question their values - that's an important thing to do!
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I'm going to the gym six days a week. I'm eating right. Well-balanced diet. I drink a juice smoothie every morning.
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Parents, teachers, and other school staff need the tools to help these young people early in their lives. And the earlier, the better. It is proven that early action prevents problems later in life.
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I've reinvented myself every year since 1998, and my style's still changing. It's grittier now. I always gotta try something new. I've grown up. Then I was rapping; now I do music, I write albums. But my distinctive voice and style, people still can't catch it. They're still asking me, "What were you saying on that song?".
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I never dreamed that I would hear 10,000 people screaming when I stepped out onto a stage. Well, that's not entirely true. I dreamed about it but in a performing-on-the-stage-at-Staples-Center-or-Madison-Square-Garden context. But never in a I'm-in-a-movie-that-hasn't-even-come-out-yet one.
