Jane Quotes - Page 8

• I would think somebody like Jane Fonda and her idiot husband would be terribly ashamed and saddened that they were a part of causing us to stop helping the South Vietnamese. Now look what's happening. They're getting killed by the millions. Murdered by the millions. How the hell can she and her husband sleep at night?

  John Wayne

  Husband, Sleep, Night

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• Truthfully, I guess I would like to be remembered as a great writer and a kind person. I wouldn't mind if an expensive bag were named after me, like Jane Birkin.

  Mindy Kaling

  Mind, Bags, Kind

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• Black women, historically, have been doubly victimized by the twin immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow. ... Black women, faced with these dual barriers, have often found that sex bias is more formidable than racial bias.

  Pauli Murray

  Sex, Black, Crow

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• [On Ronald Reagan:] Jane Wyman seemed more upset with her husband's obsession with politics than I. I tried to make her laugh. 'He'll outgrow it,' I told her. To her it wasn't funny.

  June Allyson

  Husband, Laughing, Upset

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• I woke up last night and thought: 'I must call somebody in my next novel Casablanca.' It's such a great name. I don't want to call anybody Fred or Jane or Susan, so when three people get into bed together, you don't know who they are.

  Jackie Collins

  Night, Names, People

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• People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.

  Jane Goodall

  Nature, Book, People

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• Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Struggle, Wish, Helping

  Phyllis Bottome (1930). “Tatter'd Loving”

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• I bought all those [fitness] videos -- Richard Simmons, Jane Fonda. I love to sit and eat cookies and watch 'em.

  Dolly Parton

  Watches, Video, Ems

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• When I first thought about becoming Jane Austen I had to forget about the fear, or at least choose something else to focus on because it was becoming paralysing, I couldn't focus. I felt frightened, not so much by her fans' reaction to my performance but that I would be playing someone who I think is a legend, who I respect and admire so much. I didn't want to fail, so I was putting a lot of pressure on myself.

  Anne Hathaway

  Thinking, Focus, Fans

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• Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane, and so she did. The key word is beloved. Her admirers do not analyze her books so much as they just plain love them to pieces.

  Roger Ebert

  Book, Keys, Pieces

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2009”, p.46, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her.

  Jane Gardam

  Book, Men, Two

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• Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Sean Connery and Robert Redford, Mel Gibson - at least in the Road Warrior films - and Harrison Ford are among my favorite actors. Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Deborah Winger, Jessica Lange, and of course, Shirley MacLaine, are among the women.

  Frederick Lenz

  Warrior, Actors, Fields

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• As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.'

  Maureen Dowd

  Wall, Character, Blue

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• [Art] would have helped us survive in the Pleistocene - in the period, say, 1.6 million years ago until fairly recently. The kind of imaginative abilities that artists have and that we all have in the appreciation of art - to appreciate Jane Austen, the late quartets of Beethoven.

  Denis Dutton

  Appreciation, Art, Years

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• All I want to do is make serious movies that explore social issues and turn a profit, and slip the schnitzel to Jane DePugh.

  James Ellroy

  Issues, Serious, Want

  James Ellroy (1998). “Hollywood Nocturnes”, Delta

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• There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that.

  JJ Feild

  Literature, Austen, English Literature

  Source: collider.com

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• Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.

  Mark Twain

  Heaven, Bartender, Novel

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• I don't recall a show I've ever been on that had the same director do two episodes in a row, but in England, they do it all the time. In England, they'll just have one director for eight episodes. That was the British system that Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner wanted to bring to the States. I think there was a nice merger of the two systems. They might have gone with one director, but John had obligations on The Village, and he had to leave and come back, so it seemed like a natural place to break it up.

  Glen Morgan

  Nice, Thinking, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• And there's even a lord named Lord Dashwood [like the characters in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility]. It's very steeped in Austen. It's been used in many films, but not in its entirety and we shot the inside and the outside and used every nook and cranny. The inside is very gaudy. It's a little naughty inside. There's a lot of portraiture.

  Jerusha Hess

  Character, Naughty, Portraiture

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• French girls still have the Jane Birkin culture. You can go just like that, without makeup, without managing your hair.

  Emmanuelle Alt

  Girl, Makeup, Hair

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• Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.

  Andrew Davies

  Character, Looks, Lines

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• My mom was beautiful; she was supposed to be the original Jane in the original Tarzan movie. They asked her to put her foot in the water and there was an alligator in there, and she wouldn't put her foot in the water.

  Dr. John

  Beautiful, Mom, Feet

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• Couples are really funny, because if they are together, they can fight and do fun things together. In Jane Austen books, marriage is the end of the story, but I actually think a really funny couple could be a fun thing to watch.

  Mindy Kaling

  Couple, Fun, Book

  "Mindy Kaling's Real-Life Dating Adventures, The Mindy Project, and SO Much More". Interview with Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. October 15, 2013.

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• I think as far as the action genre goes, I like when it has a sense of humor. I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.

  Maggie Grace

  Girl, Thinking, Action

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

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• I read "Pride and Prejudice" [by Jane Austen]. I was gobsmacked by it - it's so funny and so modern. Unbelievable. You don't expect funny to come through after 200 years - humor doesn't transcend decades, let alone centuries.

  Julie Walters

  Pride, Years, Prejudice

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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