Jane Campion Quotes
It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.
Quotes to Explore
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There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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We know that Texas is more than a state. Texas has always been a promise. The promise that where you start has nothing to do with how far you can come.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.
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Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
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The Indonesian brands aren't interested in sports people, only movie stars, because they can get more exposure in the media.
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People really feel like music is free, but will pay $6 for water. You can drink water free out of the tap and it's good water. But they're okay paying for it. It's just the mindset right now.
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Deforestation will continue as long as cutting down and burning trees is more economic than preserving them.
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The events of my life are too unimportant, and have too little interest for any person not of my immediate family, to render them worth communicating or preserving.
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For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.
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It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.
