Jaclyn Victor (Jaclyn Joshua Thanaraj Victor Rivera) Quotes
I was painfully shy and I really didn’t know how to take control of the stage. I only knew that I loved singing!

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I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!
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I can't stand reading anything that I've said.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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As much as my kids keep me young, they also have the reverse effect when I don't have the energy.
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Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective.
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I like being by myself.
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Always follow your own path.
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It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
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Scrawling 'I'm gay' in lipstick on your parents' bedroom mirror may demonstrate a personal signature of the highest style, but is not particularly sensitive to their feelings. Upon hearing me utter those words almost twenty years ago, my own mother did what and self-respecting middle-class mom would do: went directly into a seizure.
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Protectionism has to be avoided. Protectionism is not only on goods but also in the area of services. Financial protectionism is also bad and should be avoided.
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It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.
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No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.
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I don't like journalists and I hardly ever talk to them.
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Just don't pull out your phone at all on the first date.
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We founded thatgamecompany to push the boundary of video games as an interactive medium.
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There is no winner or loser - just one family, the U.M.P. The time for internal squabbles is behind us.
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I personally respect Bobby. He does really well on stage. Although I don't think his raps are exceptional or that he has a wide spectrum, his ability to dominate the stage is good, and he has a cool style of hip-hop that rappers aren't able to achieve.
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I actually think I need 'Homeland' rehab. And that Ray Donovan. I think I've watched every episode more than once. Liev Schreiber, Jeffrey Wright and Jon Voight have made me fall in love with acting again.
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Is it my end-all and be-all to become a standup comic? No.
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I've always wanted to play more comic parts.
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Every time I think I know what's right and wrong, I end up being wrong. All I want to do is explore. I want to see what people would do. I say, 'What would this person do in this situation?' and I write it down. I'm not writing manifestos of my political views.
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I was painfully shy and I really didn’t know how to take control of the stage. I only knew that I loved singing!