Jane Quotes - Page 4

• [Henry] James is much more complex than Jane Austen. That's why it's not so easy to adapt him. People expect a nice period piece, but that's not always the case. There's a deep human mystery in his work.

  Agnieszka Holland

  Nice, People, Pieces

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• I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen.

  Mary McCarthy

  Austen

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• I did a cover for Rolling Stone the other day and it was a kind of crazy lack of outfit. I thought, "Oh, Lord. I'm never going to be Jane Austen in a film now!" 'Cause that's what I'd really like to do.

  Rose McGowan

  Crazy, Rolling, Stones

  "Grindhouse Interview: Rose Mcgowan". IGN Interview, www.ign.com. April 5, 2007.

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• You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters thoughts with great understanding and depth.

  Richard Russo

  Character, Understanding, Depth

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• Seth can get irritated/frustrated with Jane and me. This exerpt is from the private session of November 11, 1979: "... the same kind of reaction, however, are involved in all activities, and it is sometimes frustrating for me that you cannot perceive the fascinating facets of any event. You still - and I do not simply mean you two alone - do not feel the unsurpassable force that thoughts have. You do not understand that they do form events, that to change events you must first change thoughts. You get what you concentrate on."

  Jane Roberts

  Change, Mean, Two

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• I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.

  Edward Bond

  Writing, Negativity, Shapes

  Edward Bond (2014). “Bond Plays: 2: Lear; The Sea; Narrow Road to the Deep North; Black Mass; Passion”, p.3, A&C Black

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• I'd say I'm a pretty intense person. I'm definitely not my Denise character on 'Scrubs,' nor my Jane character on 'Happy Endings,' but I'm a mix of the two. I really feel that I'm kind of every character that I've ever played; it's just a part of me. And I am a bit of a control freak like Jane. I'm very, perhaps, obsessive like that.

  Eliza Coupe

  Character, Two, Freak

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. October 5, 2011.

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• My personal view is that reading has to be balanced. Obviously, there's a certain amount of reading that we have to do academically to continue to learn and to grow, but it's got to be balanced with fun and with elective reading. Whether that's comic books or Jane Austen, if it makes you excited about reading, that's what matters.

  Emma Walton Hamilton

  Fun, Book, Reading

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think the important thing to understand first and foremost about Michael Jackson is that he was the international emblem of the African American blues spiritual impulse that goes back through slavery - Jim Crow, Jane Crow, up to the present moment, through a Louis Armstrong, through a Ma Rainey, through a Bessie Smith, all the way to John Coltrane, Aretha Franklin and Nina Simone.

  Cornel West

  Spiritual, Thinking, African American

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Everyday epiphanies encourage us to cherish everything. Today a new sun has risen. Everything lives. Everything can speak to your soul passionately if you will be still enough to listen. "You have to count on living every single day in a way YOU believe will make YOU feel good about YOUR life," actress Jane Seymour suggests, "so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Believe, Feel Good, Soul

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• I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest.

  Norma McCorvey

  Wade, Has Beens

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• I made a film called "The Theory of Everything," which is based on Jane Hawing, who was married to Stephen Hawking - it's based on her book about their relationship.That's what the film will be about - they were both incredible, strong, willful individuals and I feel like that Stephen Hawking himself would say that he wouldn't have survived without the influence of Jane Hawking, and they were an incredible team together.

  Felicity Jones

  Strong, Team, Book

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.

  Laura Marling

  Book, People, Like Her

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating

  Mark Haddon

  Writing, Empathy, Humdrum

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• I grew up with 'Jane Eyre,' reading it at school, and it's one of those, I think, for a lot of women, a lot of girls, it's the iconic story and so many girls relate to Jane Eyre and her character.

  Sally Hawkins

  Girl, Reading, School

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• I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because they live in this bubble of immense wealth and privilege and no matter what's going on around them they have a singular purpose to maintain their rank and to impress others.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Book, Character, Zombie

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• Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Book, Pride, Prejudice

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• I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?

  Alanis Morissette

  Art, Media, Weight

  Song: Mary Jane, Album: Jagged Little Pill, 1995

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• I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.

  Maggie Grace

  Girl, Kind, Austen

  "Maggie Grace Talks LOCKOUT, TWILIGHT, TAKEN 2, DECODING ANNIE PARKER, and More". Interview, collider.com. April 10, 2012.

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• I'm named after Jane Austen's Emma, and I've always been able to relate to her. She's strong, confident but quite tactless.

  Emma Donoghue

  Strong, Able, Emma

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• I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn't imagine what kind of woman she was. I was hugely impressed by her energy, straightforward nature and enthusiasm for life.

  Jenny Agutter

  Enthusiasm For Life, Giving, Energy

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• I've sort of had an investigatory relationship with being a musician. I really wasn't sure what I wanted to do. I felt I had had my run - I had done Jane's and I wasn't particularly interested in music anymore.

  Eric Avery

  Running, Musician, Done

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• I read stories aloud at every stage. I listen to my writer friends when they kindly offer criticism. I listen to my husband when he tells me something doesn't seem right. I have my mother's boyfriend, Loring Janes, read to make sure I get everything right with the machines and guns.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Mother, Husband, Gun

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• I'm a Jewish Jane Austen.

  Howard Jacobson

  Austen

  Nextbook Interview, September 14, 2004.

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• Each year the big garden grew smaller and Jane - who grew flowers by choice, not corn or stringbeans - worked at the vegetables more than I did. Each winter I dreamed crops, dreamed marvels of canning . . . and each summer I largely failed. Shamefaced, I planted no garden at all.

  Donald Hall

  Summer, Flower, Failure

  Donald Hall (2012). “Life Work”, p.28, Beacon Press

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