Janine di Giovanni Quotes
My mother came from a generation that did not want nannies. She had her first child at 24 and her last - me - at 42.
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When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.
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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.
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I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that I had a fascination with things coming out of people's mouths.
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I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
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I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A.
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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
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So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom.
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How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?
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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
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I'm lucky to be married to someone who entirely gets what I do. She is totally sympathetic to the actor's life. Her own mother was an actress, so she sort of grew up with it.
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My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned for some movies and shows, so I'm letting her pursue that. I'm OK with it.
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I think we all remember Emma Peel from 'The Avengers,' the feminist icon that she was in the late '60s.
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If there's a problem, we at Wine Library never tell ourselves that once we handle this issue, we'll never have to deal with the person again. We talk to every single person as though we're going to wind up sitting next to that person at his or her mother's house that night for dinner.
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I'm the first Icelandic director who started working on U.S. movies. There are others behind me now, but it's like when Bjork opened the door for Icelandic musicians to work abroad. We're such a closed-off country, but Bjork broke the spell. And I'm glad it was a woman who did it. She showed us we could break this barrier.
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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
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If you look through my photo album, they are all modeling poses. My mom was a young mom, so she took tons of pictures of me.
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Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn't know fluffy. Everything sank.
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I told him she isn't interested in selling yet.
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I'm not as cool as I'm supposed to be.
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My mom is a self-taught home cook, so books that offer guidelines on how to organize menus are critical to 'cook from the book' people like her.
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My mother came from a generation that did not want nannies. She had her first child at 24 and her last - me - at 42.
