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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What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
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I borrowed 100 pounds and made the pact with God: Make me a millionaire - and you can have half of my money.
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I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
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I've gone far in the movie business, but no matter how far I go, every time I pick up the phone to call Tom Hanks or Robin Williams, I wonder if they'll call me back. And you know what? Sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't.
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I always have the same thing - which is the fear of not getting a laugh - that I've had from the time I was a kid; obsessing over, 'This joke doesn't quite work, we've got to get this right.' I was always like that, whether I was a member of a six-person ensemble or whether I'm the center of a show.
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Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.
