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.
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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.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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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.
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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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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.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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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.
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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.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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You have an entire generation of kids who grew up with the idea that music is something that you can download for free.
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Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, 'My bombs are my books.'
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Before 'SNL,' I would do stand-up, opening for Jeff Tweedy. It was worse than bombing in that people were dead silent.
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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.
