Jacki Weaver Quotes
It's funny in the U.K., where I'm not really known because I never did a soap. My English cousins in the Lake District think I'm not a real actor because they've never seen me in 'Home and Away' or 'Neighbours.'
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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It's funny, I used to say on 'That 70's Show', you could really put us in any decade, and it was about the people and the characters and that we cared about each other.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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My partner has to have good sized bones.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.
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All my songs are where I am.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
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So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.
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I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
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One of the things, and the most exciting, actually definitely the most exciting thing is, having children. You know, I didn't have children before. I had been married only a year before my space station mission, so having three-year-olds is a whole new experience and that's the new adventure. It may sound funny because people have kids every day, but having your own kids, having my own kids, was as fundamentally, or maybe even more fundamentally life changing then even flying in space.
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Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.
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I'm not very good with stills. I get all twitchy.
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The universe is very big - there's about 100,000 million galaxies in the universe, so that means an awful lot of stars. And some of them, I'm pretty certain, will have planets where there was life, is life, or maybe will be life. I don't believe we're alone.
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It's funny in the U.K., where I'm not really known because I never did a soap. My English cousins in the Lake District think I'm not a real actor because they've never seen me in 'Home and Away' or 'Neighbours.'
