Jaclyn Victor (Jaclyn Joshua Thanaraj Victor Rivera) Quotes
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
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If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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When incomes and bonuses decrease, revenues falter, and businesses stumble, it's more important than ever to give - not necessarily more, but in a way that matters more. When incomes are down and wallets are stretched, the effectiveness of our giving is what really counts.
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Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.
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Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.
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I can tell you that my family in the absolute worst of times has seen the absolute best in people. And, that has given us more strength than could ever imagine.
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I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
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If you do nothing long enough, something's bound to happen.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.
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Surviving is the only glory in war.
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I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
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I don't really believe in anything special, but I respect God. I go to church sometimes, but not often.
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There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich.
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I had to grow a thick skin from a young age.
