Jacqueline McKenzie Quotes
It was hysterical going to work. I would just walk in and think, 'What in hell? Am I here? What's going on? I'm going to wake up in a minute. I'm in a dream.'
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
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A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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There's something so great about being with your nephew and, when you're tired, just handing him off back to your sister.
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film.
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
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When something is well-crafted, you know it, and the enjoyment comes from experiencing it.
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My family always ate dinner at the table, and we would chat about our day while eating. My parents like to have a few glasses of wine and linger after the meal is over, peeling oranges for dessert while talking. It's lovely.
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… We live in a world where John Lennon was murdered, yet Barry Manilow continues to put out fucking albums. God-dammit! If you're gonna kill somebody, have some fucking taste. I'll drive you to Kenny Rogers' house.
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It was hysterical going to work. I would just walk in and think, 'What in hell? Am I here? What's going on? I'm going to wake up in a minute. I'm in a dream.'
