Famke Janssen Quotes

In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

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• I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Forever

• Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Life
  • Death
  • Lies

• Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • American
  • Everyday

• I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Up
  • War
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• There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Nothing
  • Wrong
  • Eyebrow

• I tweeted once, and I still stick to this, that I would love to marry a Croatian girl. I want my children to speak Croatian first, and for them to do that, we need someone who speaks very good Croatian.

  

  Nathaniel Buzolic
  • Children
  • Want
  • Girl

• I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Heart
  • Die

• SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Work
  • Great
  • Want

• For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.

  

  Cao Yu
  • Life
  • Best
  • Short

• I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Home
  • Kind
  • Thing

• I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Work
  • Long
  • Race

• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Work
  • Athlete

• If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • God
  • Believe
  • Faith

• Put me in a costume, and I'm your man. I must have one of those faces which seems to suit period drama more than modern films and TV programmes. But I'm not complaining, I love going back in time. I feel quite lucky because nobody knows who I am. I can walk about and have ordinary conversations with people.

  

  Hans Matheson
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• I find it really hard to relate to the Bond women or Angelina Jolie in 'Salt.' And of course it's informed by my experiences and the people I've met along the way and the places I've been.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • Women
  • Bond

• YouTube, as longer form, the content you make there has to keep you entertained for three minutes - or five minutes.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Three
  • Content
  • YouTube

• I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Good
  • Writing

• If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Love
  • Bad
  • Dream

• That's one of the biggest losses, I think, to African American families, is that people, once they left, they turned away from the South. They didn't look back, and they often didn't tell their children about it. They didn't want to talk about it. It was too painful, what they'd gone through and the caste system of the South, which was Jim Crow.

  

  Isabel Wilkerson
  • Children
  • Tell
  • Families

• I'm from a small town in North Carolina and went to a small college and didn't think that someone like me could make a living in L.A. doing comedy. I worked hard, especially in college, but at that age, you don't know what's next.

  

  Fortune Feimster
  • Age
  • Small
  • College

• When you do a comedy, the goals are much clearer to me.

  

  Luke Wilson
  • Comedy
  • Goals

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
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  • Comedy
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