Jessica St. Clair Quotes
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Tone can be as important as text.
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People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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Everyone has a crazy old lady in their family like 'Mama.' No one ever comes up to me and says 'Mama' is just like them, so no one is ever offended by her. Even young people like to laugh at her. I think she helps kids appreciate their own grandmothers more.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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You never really get a chance to sit down with the people you love, unless you really make an effort to do it. It doesn't just happen naturally anymore.
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When I was 17 years old, I put out an album while my mother was dying of cancer. That right there alone is a struggle. That's hard. That's tough for anybody.
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Cancer has touched my life and the lives of those I love, and now I'm ready to help all that I can in the fight.
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There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
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I had breast cancer.
