Jane Fonda Quotes
The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.
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Europe can be saved.
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The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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Women are sacred.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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The hush comes with the deepening of Autumn; but it comes gradually. Our ears are attuned to it, day by quieter day. But even now, if one awakens in the deep darkness of the small hours, one can hear it, a foretaste of Winter silence. It’s a little painful now, and a little lonely because it is so strange.
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I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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I have no problem with women in the military, if that's what they want to do.
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I think the reason I'm an actor is the joy I find from escaping and going to be somebody else. That's what I have fun doing.
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The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.
