Jane Birkin Quotes

I always hang things on my bags because I don't like them looking like everyone else's.

Jane Birkin

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• CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • People
  • You
  • Air

• I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Business
  • House
  • Parents

• I am not in the business of suppressing books.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Business
  • Books
  • Suppressing

• I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Tired
  • Articles
  • Malicious

• Sometimes when you play a character, you can feel it in your body. And I felt like I had characteristics of my dog: the way Webster moves, the way he holds his head. I kind of adapted it into this part unconsciously.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Character
  • Body
  • Dog

• Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Running
  • Happiness

• I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Way
  • You
  • Same

• You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Guy
  • Day
  • Fighting

• Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Joy
  • Laughter
  • Strange

• You should always feel confident in everything you wear, no matter what trend you fit or don't fit into.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Confident

• If I get a bad review, I don't take it personally because everyone is entitled to their opinion.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Bad
  • Opinion
  • Everyone

• I was watching 'Pulp Fiction' when we were making 'Now and Then'. I didn't care about 'Now and Then,' you know?

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Know
  • Care
  • Now And Then

• I'm not superstitious.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Superstitious

• Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • World
  • Real
  • Movie

• Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • May

• What are lawyers really? To me a lawyer is basically the person that knows the rules of the country. We're all throwing the dice, playing the game, moving our pieces around the board, but if there's a problem, the lawyer is the only person that has actually read the inside of the top of the box.

  

  Lawyer
  • Country
  • Game
  • Moving

• Layla, you got me on my knees. Layla, I'm begging, darling please. Layla, darling won't you ease my worried mind.

  

  Eric Clapton Cream
  • Mind

• I live, to get out of what I live through.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Live

• In popular culture, when women compete, it's usually over a man, and it's usually very nasty. And that is just frankly not my experience. That's just some kind of popular mythology, it feels like. I find it insulting.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • Women
  • Experience
  • Culture

• No people are uninteresting.Their fate is like the chronicle of planets.Nothing in them is not particular,and planet is dissimilar from planet.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • People
  • Fate

• Check the card before you play. If you have a couple of long par 3s, put an extra hybrid in your bag. You'll be glad you did.

  

  Ernie Els
  • Glad
  • Card
  • Hybrid

• If you begin to think you are solely responsible for keeping your loved one alive and safe, you will eventually find yourself playing God. This phase can develop into an unhealthy, codependent relationship.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • God
  • Relationship
  • Yourself

• Your life's short, don't ever question the length / It's cool to cry, don't ever question your strength.

  

  Mac Miller
  • Life
  • Question
  • Cool

• I always hang things on my bags because I don't like them looking like everyone else's.

  

  Jane Birkin