Famke Janssen Quotes
Ever since I started as an actress, just to catch up on some money, but not having an income for three years was tricky.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
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I always want to work on things that really scare me and interest me at the same time, and you know, I definitely had some projects in the past that did that, but the stars never aligned in getting them up. So 'Lion' was another project that really interested me, and the stars did align on this one. It just happened to be my first film!
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I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre?
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I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree!
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It's difficult to identify why two cultures will react differently to the same sport.
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I'm trying to get across the message that don't be afraid of animals, they're just put on this earth to help the environment and everything like that.
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I wasn't mentally prepared to take care of them, I was focused on my career. And then when I got to be in my 40s and I thought about having kids, I wasn't able to have kids naturally. I don't regret it.
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Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them.
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Ever since I started as an actress, just to catch up on some money, but not having an income for three years was tricky.
