Jacki Weaver Quotes
I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
Quotes to Explore
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.
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Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.
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One of the major aspects of film composing is that it's not so much a musical thing as it is communicating your ideas with the director, who often does not come from a musical background.
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I believe the important thing is to continue to create new experiences. That's why so many retired people travel. New experiences raise our consciousness and stimulate cognition. Retirement offers the opportunity to learn new things, and that is what keeps you young, at heart at least.
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I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
