Famke Janssen Quotes
I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
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I have never known stage-fright at any time.
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Street artists need to get back to actually doing things on the streets instead of in the galleries where they all seem to be ending up. I hope this term 'street artist' falls from the face of the earth, in my honest opinion.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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I think I can change things for the better in this country. I'm doing it now as well, in many areas, mostly in education, higher education and technological entrepreneurship. But I think I could do a lot more from a presidential position.
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I think in 'Escape Fire,' we really look at the military as a microcosm for the rest of America.
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I am surprised that in various countries, whether it's the U.K. or the U.S., you see isolationist tendencies that would tend to work against the co-operation, whether it's climate change, immigration, innovation, helping the very poorest. Those are things where you want to think across country boundaries and see a win-win-type solution.
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'Alice' is effectively a story about a game of cards. 'Through the Looking Glass' is a story of chess.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
