Jaclyn Victor (Jaclyn Joshua Thanaraj Victor Rivera) Quotes
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn't matter to me, other than the fact that some parents wouldn't let their kids hang out with me.
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I go on a good many adventure-type trips. Whenever I go on one, it's always potentially going to be the setting for one of my books. I pay more attention to certain aspects than some other people might. Sometimes I use them, sometimes I don't. Most of the books I write are based on experiences I've had to some extent.
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Good boys are nice - don't go for the bad ones!
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The particular way I'm going to die is not going to be particularly pleasant. It will probably be physically uncomfortable, and it won't be an easy thing for my wife and kids to watch. I think it will be a real challenge to see if I can squeeze the lemons hard enough to still get lemonade the last few weeks.
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It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.
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I wanted passionately to be a priest.
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There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.
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Globalization is a fact of economic life.
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I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
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I did actually like school. When I was 17, I was in college, but before that, I was home-schooled. I was very social. I liked to know everyone.
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We have a large public that is very ignorant about world affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans.
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I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.
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Nanosecond precision matters for worldwide communications systems. It matters for navigation by Global Positioning System satellite signals: an error of a billionth of a second means an error of just about a foot, the distance light travels in that time.
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The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.
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We're far from perfect. It's a human enterprise.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books.
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I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.
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We're always looking over our shoulders, 'what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one - am I making the right career move?' When you're young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.
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Literally, my career is happenstance.
