Jane Green Quotes

I do know that I have always been one of life's observers, always standing slightly on the outside, watching.

Jane Green

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• Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Life
  • Art
  • American

• The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Time
  • Dance

• I haven't always been confident. I actually suffered with low self-esteem growing up. Eventually, I got to a point where I was just like, 'OK, this is taking too much energy.' After that, I started accepting myself for who I was, and I was like, whoever is not going to accept it, they weren't really meant to be in my life in that way.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Life
  • Up
  • Energy

• When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Life
  • Audience
  • Sharing

• I've been hit in the head a lot, but I don't think I have any problems, but I can't, for the life of me, remember a lot of my road stories and good times. When times are bad enough, that's all you can ever think about.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Life
  • Good
  • Remember

• I've given just as much of my life to that, and I practiced it with the same zeal, as I have acting. And I think that many of my skill sets from being a housewife I used for producing. Because you don't stop until it's done.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Done
  • Stop

• I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Limits

• I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda.

  

  Jack Black
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• There is nothing more important in life than love.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Life
  • Important
  • Love

• To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Time
  • High

• I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Action

• There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • New

• Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Life
  • American
  • Growth

• Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Life
  • Good
  • Writing

• I grew up in a food-obsessed Italian family, so food was always front and center in my life. I was a food obsessed person who morphed into a comedian and tried to figure out a way to make fun of my cake and eat it too.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Life
  • Actor
  • Hotel

• I was imagining a long life of being a stone cold loser. Then I got a job, which was really nice, then I got a great agent, a great manager, which was really nice. I was doing a lot of set ups, and, you know, I got to start working in L.A.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Life
  • Great
  • Long

• That's you now, hello, ciao.Seems that life is great now.See me lose focus, as I sing to you loud.I can't, no, I won't hush.I'll say the words that make you blush.I'm gonna sing this now.See, I'm true, my songs are where my heart is.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Life
  • Great
  • Heart

• I think many people simply feel like they don't recognize their country anymore.

  

  John Cornyn
  • People
  • Country

• At what cost, now, may one attempt to write perfectly of beautiful happenings?

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • May
  • Beautiful

• The point of what I do is that it doesn't really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you, informs you, challenges you, entertains you, or changes you.

  

  James Frey
  • Long
  • Book

• I do know that I have always been one of life's observers, always standing slightly on the outside, watching.

  

  Jane Green
  • Life