Jayne Meadows Quotes
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
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My daughter passed away in 2003.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.
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The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and earrings and a mohawk, but when you talk to him and he's around you, he's such a gentleman. He holds doors for ladies. He pulls out chairs. He cooks. He cleans.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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I don't plot with huge detail, just big moments and important elements, and then I have a structure but can fly by the seat of my pants when I write.
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As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've immediately created a boundary line - who's in that group, who's outside that group.
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We all get self-centered.
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You're lucky if you find something that makes you feel like yourself; that's the one time that you feel like you know who you are. Most people are struggling to find that out all the time.
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I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'
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My family is pretty funny. My mother is British, so she's got a very dry sense of humor. That's where I got that from.
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I have a very short attention span, which is funny. I mean, you'd watch me and think that I don't, but I actually do.
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I never say a funny thing intentionally.