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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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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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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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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You have to ask if the country would have been ready for Barack Obama if we hadn't been prepared by Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. If they hadn't already been in positions of enormous power and influence - secretary of state, secretary of defence - you know what I mean?
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Half of life-the interesting half of life-we don't even have a name for.
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Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.
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Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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Just be you-strong and honest. The rest falls into place if you do that. It always has. It always will. Remember that. No matter what happens over the . . . centuries ahead of you, remember to be honest with yourself. And if you fail, forgive yourself. You'll make mistakes. The whole world is new, and they have so many more years in the then you.
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What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.
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I've known since I was very little that I want to be a mummy.
