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I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.
Jane Campion
Best
Control
Imagination
Secretary
Those
Out
Rested
Eaten
Thrilling
Directors
Maid
Feel
Like
Always
Am
Surpass
Times
Ask
Your
Organizer
Moments
Things
Set
I love it when actors come to you with a problem and you have to listen. You'd like them to just get on with it, but it often means that there's a problem with the script.
Jane Campion
Love
You
Problem
Come
Like
Get
Listen
Often
Just
Script
Them
Means
Actor
If you start with a good idea, you can encapsulate it in a phrase and explain it. I like high-concept films. Everyone can get hold of it. I don't think there's any harm in that at all.
Jane Campion
Good
You
Think
Films
Everyone
Phrase
Idea
Like
Encapsulate
Get
Any
Hold
Explain
Start
Harm
Good Idea
Submitting myself for awards feels like a weird kind of horn-blowing that's not comfortable for me. I'm really happy when someone likes my work, but I don't like marketing myself, putting myself on display.
Jane Elliot
Work
Myself
Me
Happy
Marketing
Kind
Someone
Putting
Weird
Feels
Like
Likes
Comfortable
Really
Display
Awards
I love L.A. for a couple of days - I like the healthy food - but it's a one-industry town.
Jane Fallon
Love
Food
Healthy
Days
Town
Like
Couple
Our Siamese cat, Ollie, is like a dog in a cat's body because she is really loyal and very chatty, following me around the house all day.
Jane Fallon
Day
Me
Dog
Our
All Day
Following
Cat
Like
House
She
Because
Around
Very
Really
Body
Loyal
I like being on my own. I'm very happy in my own company.
Jane Fallon
Happy
Own
My Own
Like
Very
Being
Company
What I like about writing novels is that I'm in my own world for nine months.
Jane Fallon
Writing
World
Own
Nine
Nine Months
Months
About
My Own
Like
Novels
I have people in my life who will say, 'Honey, you're trying too hard.' I like being saucy, but I'm 73 and a half. I'm still trying to find my way between matronly and coltishness.
Jane Fonda
Life
You
People
Will
My Life
Half
Too
Honey
Way
Say
Find
Between
Like
Still
Trying
Being
Hard
Who
Saucy
I would have given up acting in a minute. I didn't like how it set me apart from other people.
Jane Fonda
Me
People
Other
Would
Minute
Given
Like
How
Up
Apart
Acting
Set
I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.
Jane Fonda
Freedom
Honesty
People
Otherwise
About
Gives
Feel
Like
Talk
Things
I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.
Jane Fonda
Waiting
People
Week
Attendant
Like
Waiter
Six
Being
Storyteller
Lucky
Million
Million People
Assistant
I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.
Jane Fonda
Love
Myself
Adolescent
Outside
Feel
Like
Empty
Felt
Unworthy
Moved
I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and the Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.
Jane Fonda
Truth
Myself
Beatles
Peace
Corps
India
Join
Through
Never
Instead
Like
Because
Hippie
Were
Discover
Discovering
Friends
Going
Wanted
Many
Peace Corps
There is always a reverence issue, and I'm no different from any audience member that if someone's adapting a book or comic that I like, I really don't want them to screw it up.
Jane Goldman
Book
Adapting
Member
Someone
Like
Audience
Always
Audience Member
Comic
Reverence
Issue
Up
Any
Different
Want
Screw
Them
Really
I enjoy the medium of film, and I think I understand it well, and I like working with directors, so yeah, I think I'll stick with this.
Jane Goldman
Enjoy
Think
Medium
Directors
Like
Well
Stick
Understand
Yeah
Working
Film
I like looking at a book and asking myself, 'How do I replicate that experience I just had as a reader?'
Jane Goldman
Myself
Experience
Book
Looking
Had
Like
Reader
How
Replicate
Just
Asking
It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.
Jane Goodall
Work
Worldwide
Recognised
Like
Because
Us
Much
Teach
Chimps can do all sorts of things we thought that only we could do - like tool-making and abstraction and generalisation. They can learn a language - sign language - and they can use the signs. But when you think of our intellects, even the brightest chimp looks like a very small child.
Jane Goodall
You
Language
Thought
Signs
Think
Our
Sign
Only
Small
Small Child
Could
Abstraction
Like
Looks
Learn
Sort
Very
Child
Use
Even
Brightest
Things
Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.
Jane Goodall
Science
Women
Become
Cold
Approach
Way
Would
Intuitive
Admit
More
Tend
Never
Had
Like
Attractive
Scientist
Been
Very
Maybe
Taught
Being
Hard
I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.
Jane Goodall
God
Time
You
Wind
Believe
Birds
Spend
Introspective
Like
Know
Because
How
Questioning
Up
Being
Grew
Much
I'd like to think I'm not quite so pretentious as to think my characters go off and live their lives once I've written the final page and switched the computer off.
Jane Green
Pretentious
Live
Think
Final
Once
Characters
Computer
Written
Like
Go
Off
Quite
Page
Switched
Lives
The life of a bestselling novelist sounds like it ought to be spectacularly glamorous and fun, but in fact I spend most of my time incognito, and in fact were you to pass me in the street you would think I was just another dowdy suburban mom.
Jane Green
Life
Time
Mom
Me
You
Think
Ought
Spend
Would
My Time
Fact
Glamorous
Like
Most
Another
Pass
Sounds
Were
Just
In Fact
Suburban
Fun
Novelist
Incognito
Street
Just as there are moments when the words flow and it feels like the easiest job in the world, there are many more when I think I have nothing to say, and my journalism training taught me that writing is a job, that you write whether you are inspired or not, and that the only way to unlock creativity is to write through it.
Jane Green
Me
You
Creativity
Writing
Training
Words
World
Job
Nothing
Think
Unlock
Way
Say
Easiest
More
Only
Inspired
Through
Write
Journalism
Feels
Like
Just
Taught
Whether
Many
Moments
Flow
We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men.
Jane Harman
Women
CIA
Speak
Men
Intimidated
Muslim
Spies
Like
Look
Terrorists
Dialects
Targets
Officers
Might
Agents
Use
Who
Need
I feel like I am in the service of the poem. The poem isn't something I make. The poem is something I serve.
Jane Hirshfield
Service
Something
Poem
Feel
Like
Make
Am
Serve
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