Jane Birkin Quotes
Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
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I always knew I'd be more of a character actor than a leading man, and I always wanted to take that and run with it.
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It's a tragedy. It was tragedy for Freddie Gray and the family. It was a tragedy for the city. And we're still trying to figure out how it happened and why it happened.
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It was all encompassing and so hard for me to do any classes or take up any hobbies - I'd wake up with this gnawing feeling in my stomach that I wasn't doing what I was meant to do.
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Once you lose your parents, you get this numbness, this feeling of having to really be able to connect yourself with someone. I depended on my brothers for that connection, but to have that feeling of being taken care of... I lost it when my parents passed away.
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I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
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Every person wants to stretch himself and widen his audience. Since Hollywood has got more exposure and is shown all over the world, it's obvious that every actor would want to do an English film and explore himself.
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Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.
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My grandmother, my mother and my aunts and their friends were all of southern Chinese ancestry, and they were all strong figures. Though if you asked them who was the head of their families, they would have said their husbands; and yet it was the women who ran everything.
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A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation.
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Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.
