Jackie Quotes - Page 3

• This guy don't come to the ballpark to beat you. He comes to beat you bad. This (Jackie) Robinson, he plays a ton.

  Leo Durocher

  Play, Guy, Beats

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• One of my earliest memories is seeing the bright blue, Epic 45 of Jackie Wilson singing 'Higher and Higher,' and I'd say, 'That one!' and my parents would play it every Sunday afternoon and we'd all get up and leap around the house.

  Bronagh Gallagher

  Memories, Sunday, Epic

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• When I was young, I saw a lot of martial arts films with Jet Li, Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee. I loved them. They are my heroes but, I'm so powerful, I'm so faster. I'm so young and so handsome like a model. I really loved them so they are my role models.

  Rain

  Art, Powerful, Hero

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• It's the saddest year in movies. We've got "Manchester," "Moonlight," "Chronic," "Jackie" ... it's sad when "American Honey" is the happiest film of the year and it's about runaways aimlessly trying to figure out their lives with no parental figures.

  Nick Kroll

  Years, Trying, Honey

  Source: variety.com

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• When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'

  Jackie Chan

  Writing, Want, Scripts

  "Jackie Chan Talks CHINESE ZODIAC, His Longevity in the Action Genre, Thoughts on Directing and Multicultural Casting, and Performing Stunts at His Age". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 19, 2013.

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• My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.

  Jackie Chan

  Running, Exercise, Shoes

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• I'd much rather see Richard Pryor or Jackie Mason in a theater than in a club.

  Elayne Boosler

  Clubs, Theater, Masons

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• I get called Jacqueline Bissette in America. In France, I get called Jackie Bisset. And actually, it is Jacqueline Bisset, which is not that easy to say.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  America, France, Easy

  "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 17, 2013.

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• My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage.

  Bruno Mars

  Dad, Temptation, Groups

  "Life on Mars". Interview with Rob Tannenbaum, www.playboy.com. March 27, 2012.

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• My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.

  Eddie Murphy

  Real, Men, Sound

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• Communication Was never big in my house. We sat together over dinner, but the only sound you'd hear was crunching and chewing and the little ones asking for more, please. We lived, all boxed up in invisible containers. We hardly knew the people we called sister or father. Jackie and I were the exceptions to that rule.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Father, Communication, People

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Burned”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• Jackie?" "It wasn't your fault.

  Tammara Webber

  Faults

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• Josh wanted to be the one to break the color barrier. When the Dodgers signed Jackie Robinson he knew it was over for him. He wasn't going to make the big leagues, and he also knew that because of his health and his bad knees his career with the Grays was about over. He didn't know what to do with himself. They say a man can't die of a broken heart, and I guess that's true. But I'll tell you this, all of this sure lessened Josh's will to keep going, to keep fighting to stay alive.

  Ted Page

  Baseball, Heart, Fighting

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• You think when Jesus comes back, he really wants to see a cross? That's like going up to Jackie Onassis with a rifle pendant on.

  Bill Hicks

  Religious, Jesus, Thinking

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• Only three things them ladies talk about: they kids, they clothes, and they friends. I hear the word Kennedy, I know they ain’t discussing no politic. They talking about what Miss Jackie done wore on the tee-vee.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Kids, Talking, Clothes

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.16, Penguin

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• Someone, I was beginning to suspect, had a bit of a gangster complex. It wasn't really very hard to figure out who. I mean, I was guessing it wasn't Christopher's aunt Jackie.

  Meg Cabot

  Mean, Aunt, Guessing

  Meg Cabot (2010). “Airhead Book 2: Being Nikki”, p.216, Scholastic Inc.

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• Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones.

  Junot Diaz

  Morning, Pieces, Paper

  Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.219, Faber & Faber

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• I got into the Kennedy White House because at the time I was president of the Women's National Press Club, and they assigned me to cover the early days of the Kennedy campaign. Jackie especially. Everyone was interested in the family.

  Helen Thomas

  White, House, President

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• What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Player, Color, League

  "An Interview With Walter Dean Myers About The Journal of Biddy Owens". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson and Eleanore S. Tyson, www.scholastic.com.

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• My father was like the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee films.

  Celina Jade

  Father, White, Guy

  "'Arrow' Interview: Celina Jade Opens Up About Shado". Interview with Ryan Rigley, www.mtv.com. April 3, 2013.

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• Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.

  Jackie Evancho

  Talking, Waiting, Normal

  "Jackie Evancho: Chasing Her Dreams". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel and Michele Norris, www.npr.org. May 23, 2011.

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• To me representing clairvoyance, how was I going to achieve that, how I was going to capture that? For me, it all became about her gaze and the way she takes you in. It's a rhythmic thing and a stillness thing to consider but these are little details, little nuances. We were invited to the sanctity of her home and there were roosters running around and she's screaming, "Jackie, be quiet!" Even though she's in the middle of the thing. And these are the details that we wanted to incorporate into our story.

  Vera Farmiga

  Running, Home, Stories

  "Vera Farmiga and Paranormal Investigator Lorraine Warren Talk THE CONJURING, the Nature of Evil, Their Relationship, and More". Interview by Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. July 17, 2013.

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• Some day I'm going to have to stand before God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson fellow play ball, I don't think saying 'because of the color of his skin' would be a good enough answer.

  Branch Rickey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

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• The first real thing was Divine as Jackie Kennedy [in Eat Your Makeup]. His mother found the bloody Jackie Kennedy outfit in the boot of his car and said, 'What is this?" and Divine said, "I am Jackie Kennedy!" His mother just changed the subject; she didn't know what to say.

  John Waters

  Mother, Real, Makeup

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I was doing an hour drama on television and a Jackie Chan movie in Toronto, so I was on a plane every three days.

  Debi Mazar

  Drama, Three, Television

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