Jane Campion Quotes

Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.

Jane Campion

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• It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Dream
  • Play
  • Always

• I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Doing
  • Jump
  • Comfort

• I received a call from Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum and head coach Eric Mangini. They asked me if I was ready to become a New York Jet. I quickly answered 'yes' and began to hug everyone at the table.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • New York
  • Ready
  • Coach

• In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles - a physical challenge that places intense demands on the ability of their red blood cells to deliver oxygen to their muscles.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Country
  • Challenge
  • Red

• What we should notice is that studies show that fathers' presence in their children's lives has a marked effect on how well their kids do later in life, so why aren't we asking how we can better liberate men from the workplace to be home with their kids more often?

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Life
  • Men
  • Children

• I always thought I looked kind of like Keith Richards, and sometimes I think I look like Michael Jackson in his mug shot. But as I think Keith Richards is pretty great-looking, I'm embracing that part of me.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Thought

• The first time onstage, a light went on. 'OK, this is my thing. I'm comfortable here. This is my thing.'

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Time
  • Light
  • Comfortable

• The country in which reparations actually happen is a very different one than the one we live in.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Different
  • Live
  • Country

• All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Life
  • Fight
  • Daily

• The speed with which we in the Congress are going down is sometimes frightening. Government administration in the districts is rapidly reaching a low level. No strong opposition party has been able to emerge.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Strong
  • Party
  • Government

• Being pleased with what they give you is proper of slaves. Asking for more is proper of children. Conquering more is proper of fools.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Children

• If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.

  

  Kirk Douglas

• This is what I grew up on in Alsace. It's choucroute. I'd wake up every morning with the smell of cabbage and potatoes and pork.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Up
  • Morning

• In America, they have this nauseating habit of calling the conductor 'maestro'. I always slightly gag when the cor anglais player goes, 'Maestro, can I discuss bar 19 with you?'

  

  Charles Hazlewood
  • America
  • Player
  • Habit

• I was emotional. I wanted to be taken seriously. I was pretty emo. I was reciting Shakespeare monologues when I was 10. I still know the whole 'To be, or not to be...' monologue, because I knew it when I was 10.

  

  Constance Wu
  • Pretty
  • Taken
  • Emotional

• When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die. But, it really is about that shared experience with people. I'm from theater, and that's really what theater feels like.

  

  Adam Shankman
  • People
  • Experience
  • Stop

• I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Good
  • Great
  • Small

• I'm going to try to enjoy the All-Star break, hope my players reflect on what happened the first half of the season, come back with a different attitude, try to find our solution on how to win it.

  

  Don Baylor
  • Different
  • Hope
  • Star

• One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

  

  Anwar Robinson
  • Time

• It is a much-anticipated game, and it is the last one. If you think about it, I do not think you could ask for anything better than that.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Game
  • Last One
  • Much-anticipated

• When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not.

  

  John McGahern
  • Live
  • Forever

• At some point, I would like to start creating my own things. If people don't write the scripts I like, then I will do my own.

  

  Ana de Armas
  • People

• Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

  

  George Eliot
  • Knowledge
  • Liberal
  • Conjecture

• Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.

  

  Jane Campion