Famke Janssen Quotes
When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.
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My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, writer. You know, we're just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.
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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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A few years ago, I found out that there's a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother's side. I'm wild in that way - I've been brought up to do my own thing.
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All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
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The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.
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Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.
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There is no way Israel will deal with the Palestinians if the Palestinians do not understand the suffering of the Jewish people.
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I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I really had no preconceptions or expectations for myself or really any rules. It kind of represented, at least for me, a divergent path of creativity and self-discovery.
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I remember the days of sitting at book signings, playing with my pen when no one would come, and still I even then thought I was living the dream, because I had a book out.
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I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
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Doctrines don't govern policy. They provide a conceptual framework by which policymakers approach their decisions. But there is no such thing as a doctrine that controls policy in every way.
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We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.
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My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.
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I made a clean version of 'Enter the Ninja' that my mom can listen to.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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The old image of Tonto and the Lone Ranger was one that we, as Indian people, didn't care much for; it was kind of a second-class citizen.
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Every time you do a big sword fight surrounded by a couple of hundred extras, it's a fun day at work.
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I think some of the most interesting stuff was seeing how the Dark Web works and seeing how easy it is for hackers to break into your computer or your bank account or your private information.
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When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.
