Famke Janssen Quotes
I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
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Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.
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I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
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I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
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I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
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I have been fortunate that publications like the 'New York Times' and 'The Wall Street Journal' have allowed me to share some of my opinions with a wider audience.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
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Compensatory education has been tried and it apparently has failed.
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Life and art had a nice parallel, in the sense of coming together as strangers who are separate in prison who need to work together, getting to know each other.
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This was the Mecca of the American Dream, the world that everyone wanted. A world of sleek young women (allied with Slenderella to be so) in shorts and halters, driving 400-horsepower station wagons to air-conditioned, music-serenaded supermarkets of baby-sitter corporations and culture condensed into Great Books discussion groups. A life of barbecues by the swimming pool and drive in movies open all year. It did't appeal to me. Fuck health insurance plans and life insurance. They wanted to live without leaving the womb. It made me more alive to play a game without rules against society, and I was prepared to play it to the end. A tremor almost sexual passed through me as I anticipated the comming robbery.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained. But with acting, there are different variations; there's not a right or wrong way. It's so hard because it's so out of your hands. I have no idea what's going to happen!
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
