Amy Jackson Quotes
My dad did a radio show. I was on it when I was seven. So now you know that the showbiz bug bit me really early.
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
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I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.
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I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
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I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.
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Acting careers don't come out fully formed - not unless your name is Jaden Smith and your dad has done it all.
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I want to stay hungry. I really believe my resources are best used to help projects that make the world suck less.
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Great people have great values and great ethics.
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My dad did a radio show. I was on it when I was seven. So now you know that the showbiz bug bit me really early.
