Jane Asher Quotes

I know some actresses who used to be older than me who are now younger than me - I don't know how they do it.

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• I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • People
  • Day
  • Brain

• If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • Children
  • War
  • Fight

• You never get every job you want.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Job
  • Want
  • You

• I would love to be employed for the rest of my life... But what I would want to do is things that would frighten me, things that would scare me. I've never done that before; can I do that, can I show them that I can do it?

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Done
  • Rest

• At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Home
  • Free
  • Reading

• I've made Umno more democratic, more inclusive. Of course, by doing that, I'm putting myself at risk.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Myself
  • Risk
  • Doing

• I have always been ambitious about getting a U.S. role, and if ever there is some frustration, it is still encouraging to get close to big roles because it implies there is somewhere to go.

  

  Indiana Evans
  • Always
  • Frustration
  • Encouraging

• My imagination is a twisted place.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Imagination
  • Place
  • Twisted

• 'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Book
  • Kids
  • Small

• No one wants to see curvy women.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Women
  • See
  • Curvy

• Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Power
  • Virtue
  • Take

• A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Work
  • Art
  • Personality

• It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.

  Garry Kasparov
  • World
  • Long
  • Free

• Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water. There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The 'I' is the jar.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Water

• You are not your cluster of memorized ideas about yourself. Awareness of this dissolves both the cluster and the belief that others can control you. If you have a self-image of being a desirable person, others can control you by flattering it, but can they control if you have no such image?

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Control

• If the US and Europe genuinely support the people, as they say, they must not betray our peaceful revolution. It is the expression of the democratic will of the overwhelming majority of the people of Yemen.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • Support
  • Revolution

• Well look, I don't begrudge anybody in the voters and their views.

  

  Jim Talent

• In Washington, Senator Paul has put his own ambition ahead of Kentuckians and is behind policies that would hurt Kentucky families.

  

  Jim Gray
  • Hurt
  • Ambition

• The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember.

  

  David Antin
  • Remember
  • Help
  • Memories

• You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books.

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Good

• I should not like to say ... that any kind of knowledge is not to be learned; for all knowledge appears to be a good.

  

  Plato
  • Good
  • Knowledge
  • Learned

• I know some actresses who used to be older than me who are now younger than me - I don't know how they do it.

  

  Jane Asher