Jane Campion Quotes
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
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The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.
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There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
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So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.
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If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.
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Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.
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From now back to the past, we can observe clearly that none of us is free.
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Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.
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I'm a rock and roll singer.
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Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
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I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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I don't have bad taste; I have no taste. I wear a lot of the things I wore in high school, but not the cowl-neck sweaters. I was never tall, and I am the same size, so I still wear a lot of those clothes.
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We shared our father with the world.
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
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Well, I motorcycle, I hunt, fish, I do all that. I keep busy. I'm never bored. I've never been bored.
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I think it's hilarious at 40 years old to bring out my roller skates from 'Starlight Express.' I find the humor and even the sadness in it hilarious and something to celebrate.
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How can you hide from what never goes away?
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T.S. Eliot's influence was enormous on my generation. Much more than Ezra Pound. I actually had to put T.S. Eliot books out of the house because my poetry was so influenced. Everything I wrote sounded like Eliot.
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It reminded him of the cacophony of an orchestra as it tuned its instruments: dissonance, suddenly resolving into harmony. It was the rumble, not of thunder, but its low, rolling precursor, trembling on the horizon.
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I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.
