Brenda Jackson Quotes
No matter how big you think your problems are, someone else's problems could always be bigger, which makes yours relatively small!
Quotes to Explore
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It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.
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You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.
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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
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I'm a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that's great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me.
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My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself.
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You need a big ego to be an artist.
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Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
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What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
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Harvard is the home of American ideas.
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My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.
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One of the things I've done on my shows is tell stories and do interviews.
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There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.
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Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.
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In America, Miramax are using a 'New York Times' review that said 'Trainspotting' makes 'Kids' look like a 1960s episode of 'Sesame Street.'
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My son will be an American, but I remain French.
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One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
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Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
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Quiet is the new loud.
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I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.
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No matter how big you think your problems are, someone else's problems could always be bigger, which makes yours relatively small!
