Jane Birkin Quotes
I love the French very much, and I think they know that. I've been adopted here. They treat me as one of their own.
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When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well that you can just sort of play off of whoever your reader is - that's the best feeling at an audition.
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Change is no threat to culture.
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Conformity is dangerous.
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To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.
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My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.
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My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.
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Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
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Gandalf's a good guy, and it's a good part. He says the right things, he believes the right things. An actor can have fun with it.
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You have to understand that PTSD has to be an event that you experience, a very traumatic event. And actually, there is evidence that brain chemistry changes during this event in certain individuals where it's imprinted indelibly forever and there's an emotion associated with this which triggers the condition.
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I feel really proud of my work on 'Sullivan & Son.' It's a really different character for me. I was excited to play this really tough, sweet smart, quirky girl because that's who I am at my core, but that's never who I was playing. The show is like my pride and joy.
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I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.
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Impatience is a virtue.
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Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.
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Be happy in your own skin.
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We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we enjoyed birth. You can't share either experience.
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In India, the investment banking industry is a little different. Overseas, the structures are very complicated, but not in India.
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When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into the Russian soul. Though I've failed to read either man to completion, they both helped me to imagine that my fictional South Carolina was as vast a literary acreage as their Russia.
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The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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I love the French very much, and I think they know that. I've been adopted here. They treat me as one of their own.
