Jada Pinkett Smith Quotes
I'm the glue that keeps it all together. I'm the nucleus of an entertainment family. My day-to-day is making decisions to keep life above water.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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'It Girl' is supposed to be something that only lasts a certain amount of time. They keep calling me an 'It Girl,' and at this point it makes me laugh, because I've done that so many times: 'You're it;' 'You're not it.' What is 'it?'
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Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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When I started out in life I wanted to teach.
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TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.
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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
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There are so many ways to be and to be black at the same time, but we're finally seeing that full range expressed much more widely than before.
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Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure.
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I love to turn an idea that is in my head into reality.
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I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater.
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I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear sentences.
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I'm the glue that keeps it all together. I'm the nucleus of an entertainment family. My day-to-day is making decisions to keep life above water.
