Famke Janssen Quotes
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My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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I was playing a defensive guard in 'My All American' who is a really fast runner, so a lot of my training was running. I wasn't too worried about bulking up because he was supposed to be on the small side.
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The thing I don't miss is waking up in the morning, hurting, the grind of the game.
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So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.
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Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.
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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
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In L.A., it's easy to get wrapped up in this young Hollywood mess. You feel like you have to go out every night. You have to realize that you're here to work. I didn't move out here to party all the time.
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I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.
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I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.
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My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up.
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
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The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world.
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While they were content to peck cautiously at the ball, he never spared himself in his efforts to do it a violent injury.
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Not everyone will understand your journey. That's okay. You're here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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You don't just win an Oscar because you're a great actor. You campaign for that Oscar: you engage with it; you go on the David Letterman show, and you do the interviews, and that's how you get out there.
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The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.
