Jane Wagner Quotes
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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We shred every day.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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I mean, if a camera's on you all the time, you don't get real moments.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
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It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.
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I don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible.
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An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.
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China, with her five thousand years of history, her vast territory and her enormous population stands like a mountain peak among the nations of the world. Her contribution to the civilization of mankind is imperishable. She has been a keen lover of peace; she has had a deep respect for international justice.
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I'm in a position where, if you have the ability, you should use it well. To get things done.
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Engineering does not require science. Science helps a lot but people built perfectly good brick walls long before they knew why cement works.
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You never know when your last day gig is, and if you spend your life thinking about it, you'll drive yourself nuts. But I try not to foster or exhibit any desperation.
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A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?
