Famke Janssen Quotes
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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We just here to do our job.
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When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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If developed countries' citizens want to feel slightly better about their economies' slow growth and high unemployment, they should contemplate how much worse matters could be without the institutions that they have.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!
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I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
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I like to do Pilates.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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Walking strengthens my legs, and I swing my arms to tone my upper body.
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When I was a little kid, me and all my family lived in a house the size of my daughter's room.
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I'll say initially acting was my first love, and that's what I pursued. But then, so far as even my first day on a film set, and just watching how things were set up, I just said, 'I think I want to be in charge.' I am very much type-A. I am a bit of a control freak.
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I buy vintage - mainly Alaia and some Westwood - but 90 per cent of the time, I wear my own designs.
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Playing the misunderstood character has been really interesting to me. But I think after too long, that also becomes a little bit of a cliche. Or that's all you're expected to do. I didn't want that to be the totality of what my career was.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
