Jane Byrne Quotes
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
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Hits and flops are overrated.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.
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In the film industry, you are fictitious, just like the characters you play. It has a lot do with a perception about you, and not necessarily you. You are successful because people like that image of you on screen.
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I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age.
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I tell a lot of fart and poop jokes. I can't help it. I have no filter, and it just comes out.
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I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.
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When a totally offensive tax hits a few million people, Washington is prepared to look the other way. But when everyone is harmed, self preservation kicks in, and Washington gets going.
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The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
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In my family I was never known as the fighter, like I became all of a sudden.
