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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Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.
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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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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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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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My father is a university professor so when the schools needed a little kid for their productions I was often the kid they used. The first time I was ever on stage was about 2nd grade.
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From France, you can call anywhere in the world for free. Americans can't do that!
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I moved to New York City in '92 and had no money. I had a lot of free time, as actors do. I would go to the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center.
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I think we should try to be responsible and educate ourselves. I'm simply doing that and traveling, learning first hand, and seeing first hand what's going on.
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The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle.
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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.
