Jessica Lange Quotes
If I didn't have children I'd be a much better actress. I wouldn't be so distracted. I could pour 100 percent of my energies into it, to promote the investigation which acting is.
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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I completely agree with feeling the need for or the benefits of being pushed and of being directed on a project and collaborating.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.
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One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.
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Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.
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People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.
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My wife Patrice, in addition to being enormously supportive, has taught me a lot about life. She might argue it's because I have so much to learn. One of the most important things I've learned is the art of listening.
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The world is filled with terrible things that can influence children, and movies have depicted them since time immemorial. Should every terrible thing warrant an R-rating?
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Bill Nye doesn’t want parents to be allowed to teach their children about God. He wants to brainwash kids, to indoctrinate them in his naturalistic (atheistic) religion of meaninglessness and hopelessness.
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I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.
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The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds.
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If I didn't have children I'd be a much better actress. I wouldn't be so distracted. I could pour 100 percent of my energies into it, to promote the investigation which acting is.
