Jessie Matthews Quotes
When I first began, the technicians, camera and makeup men made me feel so self-conscious that I began to have the biggest inferiority complex about my looks.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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In this business, you get an opportunity, and you pounce on it.
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You have to be yourself.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
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I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.
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Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. It's like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but it's almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
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Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous.
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I remember I would always joke among my friends about a remake of 'Point Break'. I would say, 'You know what? Whenever there's a remake of 'Point Break', I'm going to do it.'
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.
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I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.
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The Hispanic culture is finding its way into the American culture. Places like Miami are going to be centers for that influence - places like Los Angeles and, certainly, cities in Texas.
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I've always been afraid of who I am and not knowing what I can do.
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With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.
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When I first began, the technicians, camera and makeup men made me feel so self-conscious that I began to have the biggest inferiority complex about my looks.
