Jessica Lange Quotes
I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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I can be not showered and dressed like a slob, but my lip gloss will be on!
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
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There is no question that knowing someone in the business will get you in the door. But it is your skill that will keep you in the room.
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I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.
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I have never anticipated success. I choose work, give it my best shot, and leave it.
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My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.
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I come with bad genetics, personally.
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At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.
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A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the act of men.
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The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.
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As I tell young people in workshops, 'It's your country. If you came here on the bottom of a slave ship, if your people came here seeking political freedom – however your folks got here – it belongs to you just as much as it belongs to anyone, so claim it. It's your birthright. America belongs to every person who is here.'
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When the kids were young, they just wanted to be around us. We were units of comfort and support. As they get older, we work the turnstile, helping the exasperated customer pass whatever temporary obstacle is keeping them from their next exciting thing. Now we're the ones who just like having them in the room.
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I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.
