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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There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.
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Statistics are easy to remove ourselves from. A story, you are implicated in, and you have to choose what side you are going to be on.
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I still have five years to the end of my term. There are many candidates. There'll be a problem if it's supposed to be a European or someone from the emerging countries, the so-called BRICS. This will be decided, but please don't think Poland has anything to say about it.
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Straightway is a power word. Straightway is an action word. It means immediately, without delay or hesitation. It means at once. Also, it is associated with having no curve or turn-a straight course, track, or path. Procrastination would be the very opposite of straightway. To procrastinate is to put off intentionally and habitually something that should be done. Procrastination is unproductive delay.
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I always wanted to be in charge of my own career. I like having my own imprint.
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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.
