Jane Austen Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.
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I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
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As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
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I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.
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I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
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I was the first woman to win a Tony for directing, but the second woman came along five minutes later.
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If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
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A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.
