Jaclyn Smith Quotes
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The only reason I would stay away from a period piece is because sometimes the women are painted in a very stereotypical weakling, wallflower way - that's something I don't want to do. I want to show strength in the women I play, and a journey of some sort.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
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A new idea - whether it's a way to collect solar energy more efficiently or a cheaper way to desalinate sea water or a new seed to boost the amount of food we can grow - can stretch the physical resources we have, or even multiply them. And the ideas themselves don't ever wear out.
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Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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People fight today for the same fundamental reasons the Greek historian Thucydides identified nearly 2,500 years ago: fear, honor, and interest.
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There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.
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I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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No one's a virgin, life screws us all!
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One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.
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Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.
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Doctrines don't govern policy. They provide a conceptual framework by which policymakers approach their decisions. But there is no such thing as a doctrine that controls policy in every way.
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There is not a job I've held in my career that was held by a woman before me.
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I think if you forget your roots you're lost. It helps to ground you.
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The big challenge is looking ripped and lean without being too big because on camera, it's easy to appear thick.
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Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.
