Jackie DeShannon Quotes
We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.
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I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
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And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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I'm an actress, not a pinup.
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I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
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Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.
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It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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I think of all the guys that strap a gun on their backs and head to Afghanistan and Iraq to keep us free and safe and maintain what America has stood for.
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I think a lot about when times were simpler, when I was still dancing and living with my parents. I really miss living at home sometimes. I get really sad.
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Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it, but the reason there's art is that it tries to bring some kind of understanding of all the suffering and joys and pain that we go through. Storytelling brings some value to it.
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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you're younger. It helps you become a really well-rounded person, the more you can show from different perspectives. The arts show us empathy, which is so important.
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I know you want it, boy. I see you tryin. Just keep on pushin, I'm a let you slide in.
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We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.