Virginia Madsen Quotes
I spend a lot of time at my son’s school and I really wanted to do a movie that the kids could see. The good thing about being my age and not having to be the ingenue anymore is that I get to be a mom. I get to have kids in my movies.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.
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Rick Santorum has so much potential and so much eagerness to serve our country.
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I love Tom Kenny. And Jill Talley. And Jennifer Aniston, too!
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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I think that for a lot of women there's a subtle but unfortunately effective discouragement of women pursuing the STEM fields.
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When you are on tour in the UK it takes a few hours to get anywhere. A lot of the time you can have a beer, close your eyes for two minutes, and then you are there. In the U.S. it is much more like a road trip as all the cities are so spread apart.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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Politics doesn't matter, policy does.
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I've been pretty fortunate.
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I spend a lot of time at my son’s school and I really wanted to do a movie that the kids could see. The good thing about being my age and not having to be the ingenue anymore is that I get to be a mom. I get to have kids in my movies.
