Jaclyn Victor (Jaclyn Joshua Thanaraj Victor Rivera) Quotes
I learnt a lot about resilience and hard work from my mother. And yes, I’d do anything for my kids!
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.
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I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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I just lost interest in performing.
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I don't go to the doctor except when I'm very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water.
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Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.
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The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?
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My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.
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That the object of the Brahmins in giving up beef-eating was to snatch away from the Buddhist Bhikshus the supremacy they had acquired is evidenced by the adoption of vegetarianism by Brahmins.
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My favorite leather jacket I got for 40 bucks at the Fairfax Flea Market, like, eight years ago. Leather just gets better over time. There's something about a jacket that you have over years and years - just fits like a glove.
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Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
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Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.
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Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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Only once in a thousand years or so do we get to hear a Mozart or see a Picasso or read a Shakespeare. Ali was one of them, and yet at his heart, he was still a kid from Louisville who ran with the gods and walked with the crippled and smiled at the foolishness of it all.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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If I'm not feeling so hot during the day - maybe I couldn't sleep, and the kids are wearing me out, and I'm not feeling very cute - I might go and curl my hair and put on some lipstick and put some fun music on. And that builds my confidence. It's the small things. You have to find out what works for you.
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The entire island knows our father, Fred Hemmings, Jr. - kids, adults, surfers, the governor, grocery clerks, gang members who call our house at night and threaten to kill us as soon as they get out of jail. Fred was a world-champion surfer and is now a well-known, controversial politician.
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I'm so grateful that I was raised by a mother who really instilled in me that my moral compass and achievements all had to come from a real place that had nothing to do with my beauty or how I looked. That was very big for her.
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I learnt a lot about resilience and hard work from my mother. And yes, I’d do anything for my kids!
