Jill Clayburgh Quotes
I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
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I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
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Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I think that talented people really do have insecurities, and that is one of the things that kind of motivates them, because that's one thing they know they're good at. And when they're up on that stage, you can do no wrong. The audience is yours; they're there to see you.
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Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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I love running and I will always run.
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He kept talking and I thought about taking my copy of Huckleberry Finn and stuffing it in his mouth so he'd shut up.
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I can't get carried away with having a good time because everyone, especially the young guys, have to know there's a time and place for everything.
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I do not think a day passes in my life in which I fail to look with fresh amazement at the miracle of nature.
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I've got recruits that will text and call and do everything in the middle of the night. And I'm thinking, 'I'm with my family.' But you've got to dedicate time to that, or you can't do it.
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Lyrically, I feel like there are things I always go back to, having to do with relationships.
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I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.
