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Jane Campion Quotes

I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: new zealander
Birth: April 30, 1954

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Moment Think Way Over Romanticism

I have never had an unsupportive female boss. I've had several female bosses. They've all been super supportive.

Boss Never Been Bosses Supportive

The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark, secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.

Crown Pool Dark Place Rocks Summer

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.

Media News Intentions Watching How

The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a tiny, airless closet deep in the labyrinth of the Capitol where some of the very meanest people on earth spend their days cleaning democracy like a fish.

People Democracy World Free Deep

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

Poetry Writing You Living Poet Get

At the end of the day, I don't care how many catches I have or how many yards I have. As long as the Ws keep stacking up in the win column, I'm happy.

Day Happy Win End Of The Day End Up

I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us.

Back NASA Military Up Us Laboratory

Now AOL is the grandma of online Web services. I mean, we don't need it anymore.

Now Mean Need Web Online Anymore

I remember sitting in school and thinking, 'I don't know why I'm here, because I know I'm going to act and I know I'm going to America.'

School Thinking America Remember Why

Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.

Alma Guillermoprieto

Memory Looking Back Writing Looking

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

Peace Tolerance Source Intolerance

I was thrilled, because I like the big screen and I could then move on to the next thing. It was the biggest break for me. In a way, though, I wish it had been a TV series because then you are working for five years.

Persis Khambatta

Me Wish You Move On Way I Wish

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