Jane Austen Quotes
Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
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People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.
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There are some people that the press like to pick on and not just the gay press, but the press in general. And some people, the press just doesn't care about at all.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: deliciousness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.
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I like to go on the court and have a little bit of information about my opponent.
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The real me is a southern girl with her Levis on and an open heart. Wish I could save the world, like I was super girl.
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Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that.
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Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.
