Jacqueline Fernandez Quotes
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I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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I used to be more of a wild kid. But I've slowed down.
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We discount the physical, when, in fact, much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they take up space; the physical mask has some relation, howsoever obscure, to the mental work happening underneath.
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I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.
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I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.
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Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
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One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it.
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In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.
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Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.
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Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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I first started playing in piano bars for three reasons - to make money, to be in the company of my friends - and also to hook up with young girls. I always knew, even before I played in piano bars, about the effect of my voice.
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Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
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I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.
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We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner.
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Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it's always been there. It's been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.
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I wouldn't say it's effortless for me to be glamorous.
Jacqueline Fernandez
