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 was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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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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But something stirred across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks were willing to march across a bridge. And so they [my parents] got together, Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don't tell me I'm not coming home when I come to Selma, Alabama.
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We are all somewhere or the other a little grey, not black and white. We have our imperfections.
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I remember having a lot of Josh White albums. Johnny Cash. Elvis. I loved the Coasters.
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My father was in the paper recycling business back before they called it recycling.
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So for front-runners we have a black and a woman. It's like being made to choose between syphilis or having and old man crap on your face. I would do the country a favor and run myself but I couldn't deprive Hollywood of me for 4 years.
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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.
