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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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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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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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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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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The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important part as a manager, hoping to do as well as I did on the field.
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Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
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Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life.
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My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.
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People in the NBA are just as athletic as you. That's the game. You have to have the change of pace. You have to change speeds to get around people.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
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They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me.
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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.'
