Famke Janssen Quotes
As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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Setting a tone of inclusiveness and ensuring protection for all begins at the top, whether from the White House or the State House.
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For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.
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Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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I have fans, and I have family that love me, and I have my music, and I have my breath going in and out.
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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My ex-husband didn't like my singing. He didn't like my hair. He hated my eyes. Everything. Everything he complimented me on when we first met, he just hated.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
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For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
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I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.
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When I was about 12, I was studying Chinese and ballet with my brother, and one morning Jonathan said to me, 'I don't think I'm going to go to ballet class anymore,' and I looked at him and said, 'You know, I don't think I'm going to go to Chinese class anymore.'
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With acting, I didn't get much from it.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
