Jennifer Holliday Quotes

Haven't a lot of us just missed at a lot of things and thought that we wouldn't have another chance at it? So we give up early.

Jennifer Holliday

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• Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Great
  • Waiting
  • Performance

• I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • See
  • Books
  • Fabulous

• Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Yourself
  • Find
  • Easy

• I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Know
  • Now
  • Eggs

• I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Hate
  • Animals
  • Loss

• When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Research

• I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Nothing
  • Without
  • My Own

• There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Vulnerability
  • U.S.
  • Monsters

• If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Perfect
  • Humility
  • Only

• From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Like
  • Fish
  • Fresh

• I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.

  

  Wale
  • Mind
  • Speak
  • Loved

• In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.

  

  Samuel George Morton
  • Character
  • Present
  • Humanity

• No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • America
  • Quite

• War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Political
  • Military

• You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Happy
  • Team
  • Day

• I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Politics
  • Start

• I've become a captive of my own ambitions.

  

  Patsy Cline
  • Ambitions
  • Became

• That's why investigations are so important, to drill down and to connect those dots and to get the facts. What we have is a lot of smoke that causes us to want to know more about what has happened.

  

  Maxine Waters
  • Important
  • Why

• I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things, to laugh, to cry, to explode outward. I could do anything and it was totally accepted and appreciated. If I hadn't gone into the theater, I probably would have been a psychotic killer.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Growing

• You can't always make out the words I sing with Soundgarden.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Words

• I talk a lot about strength, faith and love, but I don't ever talk about the fact that I am one of the most sensitive people in my family. That might be the most shocking, because you always see me fighting the good fight, with the strong face on, but I am the most emotional.

  

  Monica
  • People
  • Good
  • Family

• Haven't a lot of us just missed at a lot of things and thought that we wouldn't have another chance at it? So we give up early.

  

  Jennifer Holliday
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