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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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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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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If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.
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My father managed shopping malls when I was a kid, and my high school job was to dress up in an elf costume and take photos of kids sitting on Santa Claus's lap.
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I usually fight a lot. 2015, I fought three times. I fought three of the best guys in the entire world.
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If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
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The PC is becoming a truck. Everybody is using a tablet and a phone.
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Yet the march toward freedom is not without its hazards or its casualties and the threats of violence aimed at Iraqis who participate in the election will be dealt with accordingly.
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If you’re really in love, you don’t care about all the other girls that are standing in line for you.
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If you go to pretty much everywhere in the developing world, you will find Bob Marley murals, and you'll find people playing his music.
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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.
