Jane Fonda Quotes
I would have given up acting in a minute. I didn't like how it set me apart from other people.
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I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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My favorite place is where I live in Jacksonville.
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I want to have lots of bodyguards around me and be surrounded by beautiful women while watching my brother play at Wimbledon.
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The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more.
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My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the football city; he had no choice.
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Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of things should lead a life of lonely torment, what except a specifical and independent sort of emotion can it be which would make us immediately feel, even though an impulse arose within us to clutch at the happiness so offered, how hideous a thing would be its enjoyment when deliberately accepted as the fruit of such a bargain?
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I would have given up acting in a minute. I didn't like how it set me apart from other people.
