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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When there are good postings available, the people who choose who is to come to that particular position, they will always have, at the back of their minds, a fear that, 'If I take a woman, she might prioritize her family over the job and, therefore, not be available at times when her presence is required.'
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I think sometimes Europe may take for granted the extraordinary progress that's been made over the last 40, 50 years. I recognize that sometimes there is great frustration that arises out of the euro zone or out of the EU.
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Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen...
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When I was young, they said in the future that you'd just take a pill and never have to eat. That will never happen.
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Every now and then, markets behave like schoolchildren. They overreact, they run around like crazy.
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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.'
