Jaclyn Smith Quotes
I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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One Tweet can be heard 'round the world if the right people retweet it and the right people notice it on their feeds.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Life is like an analogy.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up to Congress to put up a roadblock.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
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We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and with certain kinds of thinking. I often feel like I have to go back to that 17-year-old Chris Crutcher, and that forms the core voice. I can draw on teens from 1964 to 2001 to find a part of the voice I need.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.
