Jessica Lange Quotes
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
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The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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I want the people of the Philippines to be happy, even if they have nothing.
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I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
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With a horror movie, you don't want to anticipate where things are going to go.
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Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!
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South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
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If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
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There were no theatre facilities at the comp that I went to, but I did have amazing teachers who never stopped encouraging me.
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You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.
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My father was very methodical about life. He'd always ask me, 'Now, what's your system? What's your schedule like?' I have no big system, no rigid schedule. When he would ask, 'How do you do this? Give it to me step by step,' I'd try to convince him that there were no step-by-steps.
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I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.
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Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.
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The quality of our questions determine the quality of our lives.
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Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession - in fact that has always been so, but at the moment it is very bad.
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At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
