Jacki Weaver Quotes
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We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.
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The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
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I recently read an article on how I was dropped from a film because I couldn't dance! It was so ridiculous that I decided to shut up about it. Let people say what they want to. It's such a waste of time.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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I like things simple.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
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I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.
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It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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You learn from your mistakes, and I think it's a good thing as long as you learn something.
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I do have friends in Australia who now refer to me as 'Hollywood Jack.'
