Jayne Mansfield Quotes
I don't really think I am the most beautiful woman in the world at all. If I can create some illusion to that effect - and it seems I have - then that is what spells success to me.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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Our focused customers are small business and young people. We did a great job in China. How can we help those young people in India, in Pakistan, in Africa. If they can use in the same ways.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.
Gail Devers -
I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.
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We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can't get across that gully.
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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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We're gone for 280, almost 300 days a year. So 70 to 80 days I'm home every year. Being an artist, you just gotta be ready to miss certain things, like Halloween and all these kind of things that you used to be able to be free for. Birthdays, all this kind of stuff.
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In general, you don't want competitors to understand your business outside of telling people your revenue and profitability numbers.
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Every manager dreams of a job like this [the England job] and I will be sure to learn English within one month.
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I don't really think I am the most beautiful woman in the world at all. If I can create some illusion to that effect - and it seems I have - then that is what spells success to me.
