Jane Goldman Quotes
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Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne is a part of life. You don't need to be embarrassed of it.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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Yes, I loved MASH. As we are sitting here now talking, it's playing somewhere in the world.
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The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.
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A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
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One of the reasons I picked up the guitar is because I saw a video of Feist performing in Paris.
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There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.
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Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.
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I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.
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I think family movies have gotten so rich in this country.
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I would love to interview Dave Grohl. I just think he's an amazing musician, and I grew up listening to Nirvana, so I have so many questions about that.
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If every effect of any new products or methods were required to be known before they could be produced and marketed, they would not be true innovations - and thus not represent new knowledge of what people would like, if offered.
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I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.
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Faced with the alternative of saying goodbye to the gold standard, and therefore to his own employment, and goodbye to other people's employment, Mr. Churchill characteristically selected the latter course.
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The weight and concentration of the poems fall upon things (and those great things, animals and people), in their tough, laconic, un-get-pastable plainness: they have kept the stolid and dangerous inertia of the objects of the sagas-the sword that snaps, the man looking at his lopped-off leg and saying, 'That was a good stroke.'
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You cannot find yourself in the past or future. The only place where you can find yourself is in the Now.
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I'm not a gay man, but I will say this: I get it now. I know what all the hype is about.
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It is time to step back from the apartheid brink...
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As a struggling actor, you're not looking for parts that define you; you're just looking for work.
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I have the most beautiful daughter in the world and I'm grateful for her.
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In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else's romantic crimes.
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Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.
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People are out there looking for jobs and realizing that they have to look within to do and create what the new and next thing will be. They can't rely anymore on what was usually given to them.
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I came to comic books when I was about 15.
