Jane Austen Quotes

A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

Jane Austen

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• On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'

  

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• Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.

  

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• The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.

  

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• I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

  

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• The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

  

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• We never left a set until we'd trashed it.

  

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• One of the things I have to do, and I'm working on it, is making sure I enjoy the ride along the way. I have to remind myself, 'Take a look around, look at things, and enjoy it.'

  

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• I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.

  

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• Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

  

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• Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.

  

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• Kate Moss has great style.

  

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• When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.

  

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• Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn't have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.

  

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• I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

  

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• Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.

  

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• 'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

  

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• God sent me to piss the world off!

  

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• Toward the end of the Olympics, you get physically tired and drained. And no matter how much rest you have, your body is tired.

  

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• There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

  

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• A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Woman
  • Fortune
  • Sensible