Jane Birkin Quotes

When I was at school I used to scream in trains, in those concertina things between the carriages. I used to try to be so good that sometimes I couldn't bear it any more.

Jane Birkin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Our language - the way that we deal with most actors is we don't like to get very complicated because we don't want them to think too much because we find it takes them out of the moment.

Joe Russo

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I believe that the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin are two of the greatest rock bands ever!

Jesse Ventura

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I'm very happy with my wrestling.

Michael Bisping

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Cinema is not truth. Even when you make documentary films, you can choose to show this shot and not the other shot - this side and not the other side. In cinema, there's one truth - not 'the truth.' It's only 'my point of view.' Cinema is powerful because of that.

Rithy Panh

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The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.

Ronnie Barker

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Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.

Luc Ferrari

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I have always had a ridiculous fear that I will walk into the bathroom one morning and find a python in my toilet.

Lisa Graff

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My first full year of touring, I did 300 days on the road. That was not including the travel time or publicity or anything else - that was just dates. I was home probably less than 50 days that year.

Josh Turner

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I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean.

Jon Heder

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Film is a temporal medium as much as it is a visual medium: you're playing with time, and you don't have that ability where someone can pause at home. That's such a fundamental part of what makes filmmaking exciting to me. I don't really have as much interest in any other medium. I just like the control.

Jon Watts

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Character is the starting point from which we go on. When I say a man has character, I mean that when you go to that man and say, 'What are the facts in this case?' he will tell you the truth, justly, truly, and wisely as he knows, with the minimum of exhibitionism and the maximum of devotion to the common cause.

Douglas Southall Freeman

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A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it's employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.

Christopher Hitchens

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