Janet Street-Porter Quotes
Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.
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I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.
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The Defense Department is prone to all of the 'traditional bureaucratic rules,' which is the same thing you'll find in most traditional government systems.
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I didn't have good grades until I started dancing, because I didn't try - I didn't see the point. Once I realized why I wanted to go to college, I started to study and do well. I knew I had to have a certain GPA to get in.
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TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
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Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.
