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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One of my concerns for my children is growing up with your parents having a lot of money.
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Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.
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Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.
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You're not a slave to those test audiences.
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I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the presidency of the United States. People who say, 'It can't happen,' are many of the same people who said we'd never elect an African American.
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I had breast cancer.
