Famke Janssen Quotes
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I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.
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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.
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I never like to wear too much makeup, and sometimes the best makeup is when it's not too perfect. I like to sometimes apply my makeup with my fingers.
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I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.
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My experiences growing up in both a Chinese American household and the Catholic Church define much of who I am.
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When I was 17 I interned at a school, and it was the most exhausting, difficult thing I've ever done, with all these screaming children.
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I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
