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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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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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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I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.
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I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.
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Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men.
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As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
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This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories.
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I couldn't begin to name names... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet... and some of the nicest as well.
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I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
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I never say a funny thing intentionally.
