Jessie J Quotes
I had knockback after knockback before I got anywhere. After I got my first record deal I thought that was it, then Gut Records went into liquidation. I was 20. I had no idea what that meant. I had a few days to get myself out of that contract or my work would be owned by someone else.
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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With any project I work on - not just 'True Detective' - I don't feel the need just to play a strong woman. I don't want the audience to say, 'Oh, she was so strong.' I want to play characters that are flawed and interesting.
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When I left art school and went in search of work, visiting publishers and showing them my drawings and illustrations, I was met with a polite and sometimes enthusiastic response but no commissions.
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If you never did You should. These things are fun. and Fun is good.'
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Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind.
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No one deserves to be whipped like an animal.
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I had knockback after knockback before I got anywhere. After I got my first record deal I thought that was it, then Gut Records went into liquidation. I was 20. I had no idea what that meant. I had a few days to get myself out of that contract or my work would be owned by someone else.
