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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Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.
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That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.
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I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.
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I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'
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In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, it takes off seven years of your life.
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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.
