Jane Birkin Quotes

David Attenborough... has that wonderful, breathy voice, and he's always so fascinated by what he's seeing. There's nothing about him that I can't find attractive.

Jane Birkin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 14, 1946

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VoiceSeeingFindNothingHimHe

The best moderators are the moderators who are essentially invisible. A moderator who is there to be seen and heard and to be talked about either, 'oh, God, what a great question,' or, 'oh, God, what a lousy question,' that to me is a failed moderator.

Jim Lehrer

GodGreatBestMeQuestionSeen

Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now.

Jerry Coleman

BookKnowNowYearsBeenLike

I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.

Jeremy Northam

ChildGrowing UpWorldThinkEnd

If you're not out testing what's complementary to your brand, you're not making the most of your income potential.

Andrew Zimmern

BrandPotentialYouTestingOut

I like the small clubs.

John Lee Hooker

SmallLikeClubs

One of the big changes in the Congress since I first came to Washington is that all of these folks go home every weekend. They used to play golf together; their families got to know each other, go to dinner at each other's homes at weekends - and these would be people who were political adversaries.

Robert M. Gates

HomeTogetherPeopleDinnerGolf

I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.

Ann Patchett

BeautifulMountainPeopleMeBook

Being born in the adolescent years of hip hop helped us learn about flux. And when you're in an industry that is constantly growing, changing, maturing... you get a chance to try different things out and a chance to fail.

Troy Carter

ChanceLearnYouBornGrowingTry

I think the U.S. is conflicted. When it comes to our own health care, we all want the best - access to the latest and most important technology. At the same time, health care is typically purchased in an institutional setting. So we purchase it in the aggregate, but we consume it as individuals.

Ron Williams

TechnologyHealthTimeBestThink

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

Jose Saramago

CitizenBecomeChangesObligation

We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.

Jonathan Safran Foer

FamilyHistoryBestEatingBetter

I feel similar to a lot of people. I don't feel unique. So what I'm trying to do in my films is provide something for people like me, but also a collection of scenes that instigate.

Derek Cianfrance

PeopleMeFeelTryingUniqueLike

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