Jacki Weaver Quotes
When I was seven, I wanted to be Esther Williams. I was drummed out of Brownies because I snuck off to the cinema to watch an Esther Williams festival - my greatest wish if I get to Hollywood is to meet her.
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
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Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.
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I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
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The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.
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The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
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I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.
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My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
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Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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I love moments in film where there's no dialogue, and somebody communicates something with a look that kills you. That's why I love going to the cinema.
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I'm very punctual. I wish I could change this about myself because most people around me are not.
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I don't believe in ghosts and have never seen one. I wish I could see one, and I would like to have seen one because then I could believe in God. If I can see it, feel it and taste it, then I believe in it.
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I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up.
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Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.
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Manage by responsibility.It is a powerful way to grow people.
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I look at bands like the Beach Boys, Hall & Oates and Blur, and those are the bands I want to be in company with because their songwriting is intelligent, and yet you don't need to be a musical genius to pick it up.
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it is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background.
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When I was seven, I wanted to be Esther Williams. I was drummed out of Brownies because I snuck off to the cinema to watch an Esther Williams festival - my greatest wish if I get to Hollywood is to meet her.
