Jane Birkin Quotes

David Attenborough... has that wonderful, breathy voice, and he's always so fascinated by what he's seeing. There's nothing about him that I can't find attractive.

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• Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Giving
  • Me
  • Something

• They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Women
  • Know
  • Heaven

• I mean, in 'Big' and 'Pleasantville,' it's a journey that the characters go on where I think they come to kind of meet themselves at the end and who they actually are and give full voice to who they actually are. And that, you know, obviously fascinates me for some reason. Maybe I didn't adequately grow up.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Up
  • Journey
  • Voice

• Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • World
  • Work
  • Different

• I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Help

• I feel that we don't have the luxury of asking whether or not the Palestinians and Israelis can achieve peace. I think we have to just ask the question of when and how.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Peace
  • Question
  • Achieve

• I'm very punctual. I wish I could change this about myself because most people around me are not.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • People
  • Change
  • Wish

• I love Italy and I say I am from Italy wherever I go.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Love
  • Italy

• We practically own everything in the Philippines.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Everything
  • Own
  • Philippines

• My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she's a brilliant second-grade teacher. I'm in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • She
  • Kids

• Now that we have a bit of money, it is nice to get gifts for people. Before I was getting and not really giving.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • People
  • Money
  • Giving

• Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Men
  • Movie
  • Black

• You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Society
  • You
  • Know

• I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish living together. If they're raising children who believe they're honored and loved, that's all that's important.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Children

• I've learnt that you tend most to make a div of yourself when you're trying to cover up the fact that you don't know what you're doing. And that simply saying 'I don't know what I'm doing' is a massive relief.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Yourself

• My very shy Punjabi father never taught me about the birds and bees. So shy was he that he may have thought he would get arrested for even talking about it.

  

  Karan Johar
  • May
  • Father
  • Thought

• My songs are all about celebrating poignant music. While some of them focus on fun and revelry, they are fortunately backed by powerful lyrics. Put together, the lyrics, tune and my voice strive to take the songs to the next level.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Together
  • Fun

• Man has nothing else to do but surrender - in deep trust, in deep love. Don’t be a doer, just surrender. Let there be a let-go.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Trust
  • Deep

• When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

  

  Jesse Harris
  • Life
  • Hand

• Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Children
  • Needs
  • Experiences

• Spite, spite, is the word of your undoing!

  

  Arthur Miller

• I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't control people's responses, really.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Want
  • Control

• Immortality Device has been tested and researched by medical researchers all over the world from time to time. They email me and told me what they found. I post their results sometimes on my site.

  

  Alex Chiu
  • Time
  • World

• David Attenborough... has that wonderful, breathy voice, and he's always so fascinated by what he's seeing. There's nothing about him that I can't find attractive.

  

  Jane Birkin