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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I was 16 when I started modelling. It wasn't planned, but nothing in my life has or ever will be planned.
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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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The foremost threat to Iraq's long-term stability and the broader regional equilibrium is not the Islamic State, it is Shiite militias, many backed by - and some guided by - Iran.
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Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred.
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We like layers of character and personality in our storytelling. We like very distinctive, unique personalities interacting with each other. And I think, because there are two of us, and we're a collective, we identify with that. We call it the mastermind principle: Two minds aren't doubly better than one - they're exponentially better than one.
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Sophocles taught us that the greatest of all human laws is justice… and I think that is something we have to remember.
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In human rights and peacemaking, it's really about having a solid concrete goal - the reduction of human suffering somewhere in the world - and then doing what is required to get that goal achieved.
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I've known since I was very little that I want to be a mummy.
