Jamie Parker Quotes
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
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Let us reflect on the obvious but often neglected lesson that state-sanctioned discrimination never looks good in hindsight.
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What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.
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There are a lot of people out there who are just waiting that we fail. They brought up the theory that we're one-hit wonders and they want us to fall flat on our noses, just to prove them right.
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Normally, you spend the play convincing people of the world and the characters.
