Jane Quotes - Page 17

• If there was a Jane Austen camp, I would go, no question.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Austen, Camps, Ifs

  Source: collider.com

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• All of women's stories in the 19th century had either one of two endings: you either had the good Jane Austen marriage at the end and you were happy; or you had the terrible Henry James savage downfall because of your own hubris as a woman, or you've made some great error leading you down a path to ruin. One is the story of love that's successful and the other is the story usually of reckless love that goes terribly wrong that destroys the woman.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Successful, Two, Errors

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• I would be curious about one of those Jane Austen women - you know - long-suffering, dutiful - but all right in the end - a plump 19th century type, five foot four, ringlets, brown eyes, long fingers.

  Peter Greenaway

  Eye, Feet, Long

  "Fictional character: Philip Emmenthal". 8 1/2 Women, 1999.

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• [On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the Atlantic Ocean is as smooth as a mill-pond it shrinks to the size of a mill-pond.

  Rebecca West

  Believe, Ocean, Ponds

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.165, Open Road Media

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• It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen's day, not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of woman's life is that.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sex, Thinking, Fiction

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.614, Wordsworth Editions

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• Jane Austen is the feminine Peter Pan of letters. She never grew up.

  George Sampson

  Letters, Feminine, Grew Up

  "12 Sick Burns From People Who Didn’t Get The Jane Austen Hype" by Sara Boboltz, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2015.

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• To Jane Austen, every fool is a treasure trove.

  Mason Cooley

  Treasure, Fool, Austen

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• Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, once asked, "How shall we respond to the dreams of youth?" It is a dazzling and elegant question, a question that demands an answer--a range of answers, really, spiraling outward in widening circles.

  Bill Ayers

  Dream, Circles, House

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• With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. - a portrait I made in '87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player. I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service - being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.

  Agnes Varda

  Beautiful, Player, Gambling

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, "Le jeu et les moi." It's impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound. It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.

  Agnes Varda

  Beautiful, Song, Nice

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• That's the attraction of the conference circuit: it's a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at someone else's expense. Write a paper and see the world! I'm Jane Austen - fly me!

  David Lodge

  Writing, Play, World

  David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.420, Penguin

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• The Prophet had made dishonorable proposals to my wife... under cover of his asserted 'Revelation.'... Smith told his wife Jane the Lord had commanded that he should take plural wives, to add to his glory... Joseph asked her to give him half her love; she was at liberty to keep the other half for her husband.

  William Law

  Husband, Giving, Wife

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• Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to go the very extremes of literature, like Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake," before you get a literary work that literally unreadable.

  Julian Barnes

  Book, Literature, Hawthorne

  "Conversation: Julian Barnes, Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize". "Art Beat" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. November 8, 2011.

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• When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know what his sensation would be and his private comments. He would not find the place to his taste, and he would probably say so.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Heaven, Would Be

  Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

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• I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Details, Fiction, Stories

  "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Facts are stranger than fiction". www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2013.

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• I've done a lot of things for a very young audience so far, such as The Sarah Jane Adventures. I'm tiny and petite and I look very young, so I tend to attract those kinds of roles.

  Yasmin Paige

  Adventure, Roles, Looks

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Life's short, so if you're going to spend months doing something, it's gotta be pretty special... But I'm very happy to enter my Baby Jane years, and hopefully segue into the Ruth Gordon years.

  Winona Ryder

  Baby, Years, Special

  "Freed Winona: Ryder On Her Troubled Past, ‘Iceman’ Present and Ruth Gordon Future". Interview with Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. September 13, 2012.

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• A few years ago I appeared on GLEE and, Jane Lynch and I did a remake of the song that was very popular - someone told me it was in the Top 100 when it was released. First, walking on the set of GLEE the day we filmed it was surreal as they had recreated the entire original set from the music video. It was bizarre - but fun.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Song, Fun, Years

  Source: www.mlive.com

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• There is an episode [in "Mary and Jane"] where there is not a lot of pot smoking, but there is a giant wall of weed in their apartment.

  Harry Elfont

  Weed, Wall, Smoking

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• It is not like every episode [of "Mary and Jane"] people are sitting around getting high.

  Deborah Kaplan

  People, Sitting, Getting High

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I don't know if it [Mary and Jane] is a do-over or wanting someone to have made certain entertainment for us that did not exist when we were that age, but we keep going back and doing it again. I have a 12-year-old girl now and I want to make things that will speak to her. Things that will that have lessons for her to take away.

  Deborah Kaplan

  Girl, Wanting Someone, Years

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• There are a couple of things that we did not get to do last season [of Mary and Jane]. There was one that we had written and then we had to excise it and still have not gone back to it.

  Deborah Kaplan

  Couple, Gone, Lasts

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• There are more stakes [in Mary and Jane], which is always good.

  Deborah Kaplan

  Stakes, Mary

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• I think at a certain point we a little bit forgot that it was a pot show. I think I said something to Harry [Elfont], around Episode 7 [of mary and Jane], I was like, "We have a pot show. Nobody is smoking any weed." There is literally a shot in the season finale where everybody lights up at the same time. I was like, "I feel like we are not honoring our concept." It just became a show. It became a show about these two girls doing this crazy thing and getting into all these adventures and it was really not about the weed.

  Deborah Kaplan

  Girl, Weed, Crazy

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Nancy Reagan sort of downplayed that, you know - but she was quite successful. At the time she married Ronald Reagan, I think she was keenly aware that [Reagan's first wife] Jane Wyman's career had eclipsed Ronald Reagan's, so she was very determined not to have that happen.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Successful, Thinking, Careers

  Source: www.avclub.com

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