Jane Campion Quotes
This is the first generation to grow up on Thatcher - it's a different ethos. It's money minded, and it's the cult of yourself. Now that's fine, except when it falls down, and you can't achieve your goals - through high unemployment, through the fact that you probably need inherited money to get anywhere.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football players, they are not recruiting model citizens. Everybody has to be aware of this. What's being selected for the NFL is the ability to play and perform on Sunday afternoons. Everything else is secondary.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
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I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.
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I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the stuff I was going through.
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My theater has always been a political battle on the stage.
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When I perform, I like to wear funky flats, leather boots or knee-high Converse with bright laces. Then I can dance and not worry about falling.
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Sometimes we put so much effort into things we're doing, like dating or wedding planning, that we don't stop to think about whether or not we even want the results of that effort.
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It doesn't matter if it's a small role: if I know I can pull it off and have a good team, I will do it.
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This is the first generation to grow up on Thatcher - it's a different ethos. It's money minded, and it's the cult of yourself. Now that's fine, except when it falls down, and you can't achieve your goals - through high unemployment, through the fact that you probably need inherited money to get anywhere.
