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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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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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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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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I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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The mentality we have in India is not very sporting.
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When I was married, I didn't work. When I had my children, I didn't work. But before that, I'd work for Diana Vreeland at 'Harper's Bazaar.'
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All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as "miracles." But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things ... subservient to the rule of law.
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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.
