Brenda Jackson Quotes
Sometimes, people have a tendency not to notice someone who's always there, even if that person's the best thing for them.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
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I love to travel. This is the time for me. When will I do it if not now?
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Another car is not going to help me out, a nicer car, I've already got it. A bigger house ain't gonna do anything for me, and you know, a yacht, it's not going to do anything for me anymore. So how can I find happiness?
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I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.
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The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries.
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I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
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Texas is not really a red state - it's just a non-voting state.
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The European vision is the United Nations' vision.
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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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Foreknowledge is power.
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I'm not the best singer, but I like the way I sing my songs.
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I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.
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My legacy doesn't matter. It isn't important that I be remembered. It's important that when I stand before the Lord, he says, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.' I want to finish strong.
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You don't know what people are looking for. What you know is what you feel like might be missing. It's up to the people to agree with you or disagree with you, and you'll know in their reaction.
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I don't care what you say anymore, this is my life Go ahead with your own life and leave me alone.
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There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by the paintings I saw, the Soviets were right the first time.
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Sometimes, people have a tendency not to notice someone who's always there, even if that person's the best thing for them.
