Jessica Lange Quotes
Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.
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When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.
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I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
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Obviously, exercise is an important part of my life, and I think taking care of yourself is an important part of every individual's health care.
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I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.
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In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.
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No matter what, you've got to always follow your passion in life and always keep learning.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
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You must learn to take life less seriously and to laugh.
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I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.
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I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.
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In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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It doesn't matter how old you are or what you do with your life, you will never stop needing your mum. And I will never stop needing mine, so thanks, Mum.
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I feel responsible for certain fans, but I've never said I'm a role model.
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I've always dreamed of becoming a mother. I thought I would get married and do it all the traditional way, but life kept going on, my career kept me busy - and I had not stopped to become a mommy.
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Sports were a big part of my life. I was the captain of the basketball team in high school, and captain of the basketball team at Princeton.
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Because of my interest in songwriting, I was invited to visit a friend in L.A. for songwriting sessions with him and his friends. We wrote six songs by the end of the weekend, and 'Hide Away' happened to be one of them!
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Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.
