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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The coolest part about 'God Made Girls' is you had all these different women writing it, so you had all these different perspectives in this song.
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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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Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.
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You don't need the iPhone: you have the most exquisite apparatus in the known universe sitting right in your head - the most complex organization of matter in the entire universe. And here are we, feeling a little depressed, feeling like we're not getting where we need to be, when really you might be exactly where you need to be.
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I have a huge interest in Japan, which is well known, including its history and culture, and so it will be very interesting for me to see and learn more about Japan.
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When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction, you have to be as factual as possible but also hopefully - also bring... emotional relevance to the piece.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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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.
