Jane Lindskold Quotes
To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.
Quotes to Explore
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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You make a movie for 9k for the freedom it allows you.
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I believe we have made a decision now that will permit us to create an economic order in the world that will promote more growth, more equality, better preservation of the environment, and a greater possibility of world peace, we are on the verge of a global economic expansion that is sparked by the fact that the United States at this critical moment decided that we would compete, not retreat.
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The killing of innocent people is a sin.
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What prevailed was that it was a family story, so it didn't matter what the color. It was also the perfect subject matter for a miniseries: A best-selling book, a generational story, a social problem - they all made 'Roots' what a miniseries should be.
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Why can't ladies like nice guys?
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To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.
