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Jane Birkin
Jane Birkin
English Actress
Born: Dec 14, 1946
Always Because Good Me Think You
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When you start recognising that you're having fun, life can be delightful. Jane Birkin
Life You Having Having Fun Delightful Fun Start
My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust. Jane Birkin
You Mother Reading Nothing Silk Got Proust Underwear Left Get Right Start
Big Ben... hearing the chimes makes me feel at home. Jane Birkin
Home Me Big Feel Makes Hearing Ben
I don't like getting older, but there's nothing I can do. Hitting 60 wasn't great, but I think I was lucky in not being that beautiful; it can be really cruel on people who have been stunning. Jane Birkin
Beautiful Great People Getting Older Nothing Older Think Cruel Like Stunning Been Hitting Getting Being Really Who Lucky
There's no fun in a bag if it's not kicked around so that it looks as if the cat's been sitting on it - and it usually has. The cat may even be in it! I always put on stickers and beads and worry beads. You can get them from Greece, Israel, Palestine - from anywhere in the world. Jane Birkin
You World Worry Kicked No Fun Beads Cat Put Bag Looks Around Always Israel Been Greece Get Sitting May Anywhere Them Fun Even Palestine
When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time. Jane Birkin
Death Time France Penalty Unpopular Protest Arrived Death Penalty Which Against Aged Thing
Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing. Jane Birkin
Strange Mother Spell Out See Seems Cast Both Come Any Afternoon Means Film Two
I feel most comfortable in an old pair of jeans, Converse, and a man's jersey. My best friend cuts my hair with kitchen scissors. Jane Birkin
Best Man Old Hair Best Friend Kitchen Feel Most Comfortable Scissors Friend Converse Cuts Jeans Pair Jersey
A Birkin bag is a very good rain hat; just put everything else in a plastic bag. Jane Birkin
Good Rain Else Everything Everything Else Hat Put Bag Very Just Plastic Plastic Bag
He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore. Jane Birkin
Love Me Young He Because Anymore Loved Paint Painted Now
I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having. Jane Birkin
Family People Wish Else Everyone Everyone Else Seeing About Rather Having Had Know Came Go Off Banging Different Conventional Different People Fun Keep Now Why
I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream. Jane Birkin
Sometimes Enough Teeth Thumbs Tight Just Scream Grind Them Asked Lucky Keep Actor
I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror. Jane Birkin
Home You Sadness Old Face Mirror Seen Own Rage Way Someone My Own Days Like Know Looks Coming Coming Home Old Days Used Who
I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries. Jane Birkin
Love Myself Me World Chuckle Earthly Out Miseries He Taken Another Because Makes Dickens Many
I only like boutiques. Jane Birkin
Only Like
If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free. Jane Birkin
Free Everyone City Trips River Invite Over Balloon Were Wander Mayor Boat Elderly Rides Homes Residential
People always like things that seem exotic. Jane Birkin
People Seem Like Always Exotic Things
Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all. Jane Birkin
Thought Late Focusing He Robert Stevenson Boy Always Louis Author Short Stories Short Stories Ignorant
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
Wonderful Nothing Find Seeing About Voice David He Attractive Him Always Fascinated
Nothing has ever touched on what fun childhood was. Summer holidays were bliss. We made home movies, with real stories in them. My father had such charm and charisma, and made everything so funny. Jane Birkin
Funny Home Father Made Nothing Summer Everything Charisma Charm Touched Had Bliss Real Were Childhood Stories Holidays Movies Them Fun Ever
My first husband, John Barry, was a composer. I couldn't believe that this sophisticated, talented genius chose me and not any of the other girls. I was so flattered, so excited, so in love with him. Of course, my parents were horrified, as he'd been married once and had a daughter with the au pair girl. Jane Birkin
Love Me Genius Girl Husband Parents Daughter First Believe Other Once Married John Composer Horrified Had He Excited Talented Sophisticated Him Course Were Been Any Flattered Barry Pair Chose
I never have more than one bag at a time. I think one is already quite enough. Also, I hate changing bags, so I never have the thing of having ten bags. Any bag that's with me will take the same course as I will. It will take the same airplanes and will be squashed in the same way and will be used as a cushion in the airports. Jane Birkin
Time Me Hate Will Think Enough Changing Way Airplane Airport Ten Having More Take Never Bag Bags Also Course Than Squashed Same Any Quite Cushion Used Thing
I think there is an extreme charm in the French, and actually it's their bolshiness that makes them such fun. Jane Birkin
Think Extreme Charm French Makes Them Fun Actually
I have never written a book about my life, despite being offered purses of gold. I made 'Boxes' because I wanted to make a sincere depiction of a daughter who has lost her father, or the jealousy one can feel towards a daughter who has become more beautiful than you and whose stepfather starts to take her shopping. Jane Birkin
Life Beautiful Jealousy You Book Shopping Father Made My Life Daughter Become Lost Starts Despite About More Take Never Written Stepfather Feel Towards Sincere Make Because Boxes Offered Than Gold Being Wanted Depiction Who Whose Her
One of the things I've discovered, thanks to the Japanese, is that you should enjoy yourself. In the old days, I used to think: 'Oh, never be satisfied, never admit to being happy.' But there's no curse in being happy. Jane Birkin
You Happy Yourself Old Thanks Satisfied Enjoy Think One Of The Things Admit Never Days Discovered Oh Being Curse Old Days Being Happy Japanese Should Used Things
I think it's always good to read local authors or relevant books. In Egypt, I studied hieroglyphics and read everything about the mummies. Jane Birkin
Good Think Local Everything Books Relevant About Studied Read Always Authors Egypt
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