Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes
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I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
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I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.
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Desire is the very essence of man.
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We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.
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I'm in a loft and the kitchen is in the very center of the apartment. The whole place revolves around it.
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I'm very interested in science.
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I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.
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I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.
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What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.
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Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.
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I'm so secluded. Very alone.
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I'm a very competitive person.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.
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I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.
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I'm terribly, horribly shy.
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There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
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All the child-star cliches, I've tried very hard to avoid them all.
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It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit.
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Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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I'm not shy. I'm modest, but I'm very outgoing.
