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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Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do.
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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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'Job Killer.' Those are the two words you are most likely to hear uttered by most American CEOs when confronted with proposals to enact family-friendly work policies.
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I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.
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I think it's the future. At least, it's the future we called "tomorrow." Here it is, "today": one hundred cups of effort, good intentions, small misunderstandings, stretching away from the bed and finally leading back to it.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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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.
