Jane Birkin Quotes
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.
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Were it not for Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey would be remembered, if at all, as a Bible-thumping midwestern Methodist windbag who neither played baseball on Sundays when he was a mediocre catcher for the St. Louis Browns and the New York Highlanders, nor attended games on the Sabbath as a baseball executive.
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Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
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I come from the school who thought the Internet could be the great democratising force, that getting rid of the gatekeepers was a positive move.
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We start 2016 with a command: that the subject of Pete Rose and the Hall of Fame is over, finis, kaput forever and ever. As sure as we will no longer discuss whether Lindsey Graham or George Pataki can be president.
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I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.
