Jill Clayburgh Quotes
A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each other, and I want to remain that way. I'll talk music, production, writing songs, touring with anyone but keep religion, politics and world affairs off the table, as my expertise is in songs and music.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'
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I don't weigh into politics.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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I was miserable in WCW. I knew I wasn't going to go any higher there, and jumping to WWE hadn't even crossed my mind. I couldn't stop wondering, 'Is this it? Is this what I worked my whole life for?'
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I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.
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The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.
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There are few things quite so effortlessly enjoyable as watching an eminent person getting in a huff and flouncing out of a television interview, often with microphone trailing.
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The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn't. What happened may happen again, to others not necessarily Jews, perpetrated by others, not necessarily Germans. We are all possible victims, possible perpetrators, possible bystanders.
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My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas.
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Harte sent one of her revived men after him, and Pat sent him back in boxes.
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A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen.
