Jacqui Ainsley Quotes
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
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You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
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I have a necklace with a golden key, given to me by my sisters, which I always wear.
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I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.
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Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.
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I feel that if you shelter your kids from everything, one day they are going to be out in the world on their own, and they are going to have to figure it out. You can't give them a test if you never taught them anything that's on the test. They're going to fail.
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I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
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I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
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With a horror movie, you don't want to anticipate where things are going to go.
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Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.
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It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.
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Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
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I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'
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At that time, I feel sad, and I feel no one knows how hard I work and how many tears. They only know the score. At that time, I feel very lonely because no one understands since they haven't been world No. 1 before.
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I'm not a nostalgic person: I never look back; I always forget.
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Making movies is really hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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I made my first million pounds at the age of 26. As a little girl, I said I would retire when I had made my first million. The reality was different. When I did make it, I wanted to make another million, and another, and another after that.
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God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
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I'm trying to escape the shackles of a pen and a pad. I've sat in sessions with Jay-Z where he doesn't write anything down. He'll come up with the most incredible triple entendre, all in his head - it's amazing.
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I've known since I was very little that I want to be a mummy.
