Jane Seymour Quotes
My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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There is always pressure in football.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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When I go out and I'm presenting the best side of myself, I want to look different from everyone, but I don't want it to look like I'm wearing a costume.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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I guess I'm a good manager now. Moreover, I'm loving the concept of donning the producer's hat. It's all very exciting as well as a great learning experience. You're a part of a film right from its conception to its execution, and that's an amazing feeling.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.
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Cinema is my religion. It is a way to make people sensitive, through emotions. To make them feel, experience empathy. People are touched and act ethically when they are emotionally touched.
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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It's really exciting, isn't it? We came home and he said, 'Do you want a big wedding or a small wedding?' Here I am a hard-boiled reporter and I have got butterflies.
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My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.
