Jane Goldman Quotes
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
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You can have the biggest markets in the world, but if the game isn't exciting, compelling, and competitive, it's not going to generate a lot of interest.
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Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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What's more important to 'SNL': comedy or buzz? To the writers, players and guest hosts, it's probably the former; to Lorne Michaels and the suits at NBC, it's ultimately probably the latter.
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I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things.
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We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty and freedom from discrimination. My concerns lie with the possible consequences of politically-driven legislation which claims to promote religious liberty but instead rolls back the legal protections held by LGBT Americans.
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The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.
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Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything.
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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
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I think what we have to do is speak about the issues and speak about my record.
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I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
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A lot of people use the phrase 'underage violence,' which, to me, is meaningless.
