Jacki Weaver Quotes
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.
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Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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You just can't control your art in the future.
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My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
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I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.
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Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.
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The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.
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I actually really love to work out. You need to find what you love.
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If you can raise the level of effort and performance in those around you, you are officially a leader.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness.
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I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.
