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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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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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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In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.
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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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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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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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Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior.
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How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitiate, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
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What is a farm but a mute gospel?
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I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever.
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You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.
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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.
