Jane Birkin Quotes
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.
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I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.
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For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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I'm on Twitter. I created my account for my fans, and I do respond back once in a while, because they're so great.
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Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to get all cut up in a movie.
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We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
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I have three incredible nieces and a nephew who's going off to college. To hear them say they're proud of me left me in tears.
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I'm not a things person. I'm not one to keep much. I do have a small collection of picks from favorite musicians I got to play with, a collection of mementos. I'm kind of the opposite of a hoarder, as I try to get rid of everything.
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For a long time, I would go out of my way to have a personal appearance on the verge of an insane person, because it was closer to how I felt, but I looked so dumb. So, I just stopped. It was like, 'I'm just going to look like a banker.'
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I think I approach pressure by having discipline and learning to be calm in everyday life. I do this with a daily mindfulness practice and commitment.
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'A mother must put on her oxygen mask first, in order to be able to help her children' - I see this instruction on airplanes as an appropriate metaphor for feminist mothering. Mothers, empowered, are able to better care for and protect their children.
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I think that, you know, when we start talking about the Tea Party, people want to marginalize that into some kind of organization or party, but it really isn't.
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Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!
