Jessica Lange Quotes
So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space.
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
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Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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When Elizabeth II was crowned – the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest – the world lit up in her favour.
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The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.
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Even including myself, my favorite author is Eileen Spinelli, who I happen to live with. She's a terrific writer and has written several of my all-time favorites.
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One of the things I've learned about being president is that we'll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in obscurity.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
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I remember seeing McCoy Tyner in concert, and thinking that the music was incredible, but wanting to be invited in. I figured that humor was the way of letting the audience in. I've gotten a hard time about it, but I love to be funny onstage.
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So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space.
