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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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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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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It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.
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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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No matter how much makeup I wore, people just kept saying 'Yes, sir! Would you like tea with that, sir?' 'Yes, I would like tea. Why don't you put it on my breasts?' 'Certainly. Tea for this man's breasts! Anything else, sir?'
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People who want to express themselves effectively can learn a lot from the hard-won concision of the copywriter.
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I'm not upset about my career; I'm just upset about how my name has been portrayed. A lot of guys have played with Bron and had success. There's nothing I can do about it. I've tried to change my image a million times.
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The vocabulary I use has to reflect the people I'm trying to communicate with.
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If you think about a lifestyle short of retirement that lends itself to being a hardcore gamer, there is none better than being a major league starting pitcher. I work once every five days and travel and am alone all the time. So while the other guys were spending their money on the all the cars and jewelry, I bought laptops.
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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.
