Jane Fonda Quotes
People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
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GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
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You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.
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IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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You want your partner to objectify you.
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If people make a lot of introductions, should they get recognized for it? I've never seen a score showing who's a good connector. That'd be useful, right?
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I always try to look for the hidden face of the character, the hidden face that we all have.
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I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
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Your genome sequence will become a vital part of your medical record, thereby providing critical information about how to optimize your wellness.
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When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.
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I say my greatest strength is my speed, and I think that I could use some work on my concentration.
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I seek advice from my wife, who has been with me for 20 years and knows me better than I even know my own self.
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People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.
