Jessica Lange Quotes
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Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.
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I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to get me on the dance floor? Anything from 'Saturday Night Fever,' and you're up there like a demon.
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Different times need different types of leadership.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.
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When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless relationship about love and betrayal. For me, the setting and the specific history are active co-agents with me in trying to form the novel.
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Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.
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The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.
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You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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I was captain in Atletico at 19, playing in the same team as Demetrio Albertini, who won three Champions Leagues, and Sergi Barjuan from Barcelona, who had won everything, and they were 32, 33. I was a kid as captain, so I wasn't the real captain, just a kid learning from them.
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For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.
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I had a very hard time accepting myself as a character actress because I wanted to be glamorous and a leading lady like everybody else. I looked in the mirror and thought I looked pretty good, but casting didn't ever see me that way.
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Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.
