Jessica Williams Quotes
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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I have always loathed working out.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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It was a deliberate decision to act in family entertainers like 'Govindudu Andari Vadele' and 'Bruce Lee.'
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
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The main reserve of the Haisla Nation hugs the northwest coast of British Columbia, about 500 miles north of Vancouver. The government docks sprawl on the south end of the reserve, nestled in a bay. As children, we swam at the docks and ran to the nearby point to pick blueberries and huckleberries when we were hungry so we wouldn't have to go home.
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And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
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You find your limits by going out and trying. We're just like anybody else in any other job. You just can't work 90 hour weeks. You can't do it. We can't sing seven days a week.
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Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.
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I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.
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Ask everyone whether they're an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately, because actors are in the public eye, whether we want it or not, sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve.
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There's a lot of women's organisations, but they're all working separately. If you get people together, as a collaborative voice, it's strong.
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I think people have a lot of layers. I know I do in particular.
