Janet Jackson Quotes
It's very hard trying to have love and a career at the same time. For those who can, great, but I can't.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured. I've made a transition to where I really want to be.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.
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I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.
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The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces. Their clear intention was to deprive the people of their democratic freedoms. As history shows, this is what had happened in the Soviet Union and in Cuba, and continues to be the case in other parts of the world.
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You have to do what makes you feel good, but for me, it has to come from that spiritual side first.
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I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
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It's very hard trying to have love and a career at the same time. For those who can, great, but I can't.
