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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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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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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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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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
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...what's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There is no excuse for it. No justification. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we will pay a heavy price for it.
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Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a very individual thing because I heard some people say, like, oh I don't like it at all. But I definitely, for me it really made a big difference.
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I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
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I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?
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The hard reality is that the omelette has been made and you cannot get your egg back.
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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.
