Famke Janssen Quotes
We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
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My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded.
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My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
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'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not!
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America is huge.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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I often think about death, and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.
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The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
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It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.
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I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!
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I love to be by the ocean and have always done my best thinking by the sea. The ebb and flow is like a brain massage and very calming. I am also inspired by seeing kindness in others. It touches me and reminds me to be kind as well.
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Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.
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A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.
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I think, when we start dealing with heaven or hell issues, what we really need to gravitate toward is that man is an eternal spirit. And if you believe that he is an eternal spirit then all it does, it abandons the body.
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I've never been a person that has had fear of, like, 'Oh, I don't want to be the poster child for all black lesbian women.' I don't know. I want to be someone in the public eye that they can be proud of.
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We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.
