Jessica Lange Quotes
The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want to work with a director, even if the script or the part's not that great.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.
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I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
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I enjoy music so much; it's such a passion in my life, and I hope that comes across.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
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The big business, Hollywood? I don't really work in that business. I peripherally work in it, but I'm not involved in it the way some people are.
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I squander untold effort making an arrangement of my thoughts that may have no value whatever.
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My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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I try to be as honest as I can in writing. That's what ends up translating and relating to people.
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Sometimes I get butterflies before I get up on stage.
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The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want to work with a director, even if the script or the part's not that great.
