Jane Campion Quotes
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That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
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With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.
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People are obsessed with my haircut; everyone wants to do something with my hair before the ceremony. Very senior figures tell me their hairstylist wants to do my hair for free. It's surprising. People from television are interested almost exclusively in aspects of my hair and my hairdresser.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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Before a show, I usually give myself two-and-a-half hours to get ready. I prepare my shoes first. New ballet pumps can sound like tap shoes. You have to take the noise out of them by hitting them against stone. It takes half an hour to do each pair, and I can go through three pairs in one night.
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I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
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In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter.
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It comes down to the difference between what you were planning to do and what life throws at you and you have to end up doing. The one who knows how to improvise is the one who comes out ahead.
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Tragedy makes you grow up.
