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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Cheney shots his buddy in the face. Clinton shot his intern in the face.
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I like to be out of my depth - that's when I learn the most.
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The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general sense of encouragement and heart-ease.
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The existence of symmetry laws is in full accordance with our daily experience. The simplest of these symmetries, the isotropy and homogeneity of space, are concepts that date back to the early history of human thought.
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People approach you in a different way when you're a celebrity - some are nice, some are not nice.
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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.
