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 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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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.
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I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.
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New York musicians rarely have the time for idle chat and conversation after a gig. Despite popular assumption of our scintillating after-hours, that illusion is overtaken by the constant hustle to juggle a part-time or full-time job, a myriad of errands, a second or third gig of the day, and perhaps a child or two somewhere.
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
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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.
