Jessica Simpson Quotes
I'm very ditsy and a klutz. I've been known to walk on stage and fall over my dress.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
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I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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Our past is who we are, and death is one of our experiences. I lost my husband a long time ago, but it's always yesterday.
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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
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A woman who tells her age tells everything, and I won't tell it.
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My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
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I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
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20 years on I'm not that interested in charity. I'm interested in justice. There's a difference. Africa needs justice as much as it needs charity. Equality for Africa is a big idea. It's a big expensive idea.
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My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.
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When I do stand-up shows at colleges, girls will talk to me after the show, and that always feels good. I like talking to them.
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I do not want and will not take a royalty on any record I record. I think paying a royalty to a producer or engineer is ethically indefensible. The band write the songs. The band play the music. It's the band's fans who buy the records. The band is responsible for whether it's a great record or a horrible record. Royalties belong to the band. I would like to be paid like a plumber. I do the job and you pay me what it's worth.
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Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?
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I'm very ditsy and a klutz. I've been known to walk on stage and fall over my dress.
