Jane Fonda Quotes
As I started getting older, I realized, 'I'm so happy!' I didn't expect this! I wasn't happy when I was young.
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I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.
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Habits change into character.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
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The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need.
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All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.
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Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself.
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I'm really still a child of the Forties. I still think about it a lot, about the repercussions of armed conflict. Until 1953 we had rationing. We couldn't buy meat, we couldn't buy pleasurable goods like cigarettes and sweets. I didn't starve - my family were lucky - but I knew what it was like standing in line waiting for foodstuffs.
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As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time.
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Going into a pregnancy is a really challenging time for a woman, because it's forever-changing, both mentally and physically.
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As I started getting older, I realized, 'I'm so happy!' I didn't expect this! I wasn't happy when I was young.
