Wanda Jackson Quotes
It would be nice to say that I planned all of this, that this was exactly what I'd planned, but it was just one of those things that happened.
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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.
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We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
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I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.
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You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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Music is about the performance.
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You don't know fear until it's 7 A.M. and freezing cold on live television, and you're not sure if Justin Bieber is going to kiss you or not.
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George Foreman is easier and has the bigger name and have you noticed that Foreman never calls me out or ever mentions my name? He is afraid of me like most fighters are and most people want to forget about Larry Holmes, like he never ever existed.
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I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.
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My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.
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I would not say I'm an aggressive shopper. I want to be; I aspire to be an aggressive shopper. I am a meek, meek shopper.
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'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.
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I shop more than most women.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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A lot of people are surprised to hear that an actor studied for two or three years. They take the craft for granted and wanna just wake up and be an actor.
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Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.
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The Network Generation are secure in, and proud of, their Scottishness. Unlike my generation that grew up in the '80s, they don't see our sense of identity as under threat.
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It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny.
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It would be nice to say that I planned all of this, that this was exactly what I'd planned, but it was just one of those things that happened.
