Jane Goldman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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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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Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
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I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.
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My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.
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Yes, I always imagined living in other places.
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I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.
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A lot of people use the phrase 'underage violence,' which, to me, is meaningless.
