Joseph Jackson Quotes
All I know is, he's a good kid, and he's done right all his life. And he always treats other people right.
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
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With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.
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If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.
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Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.
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My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.
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One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.
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When I say 'art healed me,' it really healed me!
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I wholeheartedly rejected anything remotely feminine but was not enthusiastic about anything masculine, either. I did not want to cook and have babies, and I did not want to be an engineer or a baseball player or a soldier or a politician or any of the myriad careers open mostly or solely to men. I wanted to be a poet.
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We wanted to guide the musicians, so we could create our own sound. We would never let the band just go in and play the chord sheets. We were very focused on what we had in mind for these productions.
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One must be something in order to do something.
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All I know is, he's a good kid, and he's done right all his life. And he always treats other people right.
