Jane Birkin
Related ICE T My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from ... PAUL GIAMATTI RUTH REICHL LORNA LUFT Believe me what I did came from my heart. She asked me for help and I gave it to her. She wanted her... JOE SPARICO JOAN LINGARD FRANCESCA ANNIS ROBERT WINSTON JOAN RIVERS TRACY MORGAN WALTER DEAN MYERS ALAN FURST Everybody came out OK except my mother. She was in the back seat and was thrown into the windshield. FRANK VEGAS My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer... SUE MILLER Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came ... SALLY QUINN DAVID CASSIDY EDMUND WHITE STEPHEN CHBOSKY She looked at me, she rolled her eyes back, a tear came down her face and she died in my arms. EDWIN REYES GERTRUDE B. ELION LYNN JOHNSTON MARLO THOMAS I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved... ROBERT POWELL DIANE VON FURSTENBERG As she was speaking in a loud voice, I came out of my room and listened to her. She told me about wh... DATUK MICHAEL CHONG BETTY SMITH I had to come out to my mother three times over a twelve-year period, but I first came out to her wh... BILLY PORTER I imagine he'll probably run her again [before the Breeders' Cup]. We put her in the round pen [Sund... PETER HUTTON My father always liked to have her around. He was so proud of how she looked. She was so pretty, sma... JUDY TESSIER KATHA POLLITT SARAH ADDISON ALLEN My mother arrived in Brussels in 1938 from a small town near Krakow. But strangely enough, in 1942 o... CHANTAL AKERMAN I came out and saw the girl stumbling out of the car. I asked her if she was OK. She said yeah. She ... JULIE GILBERT METHOD MAN PAUL MCCARTNEY JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Her mother said she was abducted a few days before in Houston, Tex., and that Scout basically got aw... MANON CARRIE JAMES CAMERON My mother is a very keen businesswoman. She came to this country from Poland in 1959. Her parents we... LAURA PUCHOWICZ I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for... GARY NUMAN A lady called me the other day and said she was able to save $15 on her mother's prescription. She t... JEAN RAGS My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jal... XAVIER BECERRA She said when she graduated from high school, no one came to support her. It was a very touching let... AUDREY BACHYNSKI She probably came from nothing, so it was very important to her in her adult life to have everything... ELIZABETH PERKINS SIMON VAN DER MEER VIKRAM SETH LEIGH BARDUGO But she loved her dad; she was a daddy's girl. She said her father had changed the life insurance an... MALINDA GONZALES TIG NOTARO My mother flew out to see us on April 9. She had never flown before, and that snowstorm stretched fr... ANNETTE BROWN Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small n... JIM JARMUSCH She's saying that she was raped by her father, he threatened her, he threatened her and her mother i... MIKE WRIGHT She had it all going for her. She was very popular, she was a great student from a great family, and... J. TYLER MAKEPEACE My mother got to read the book in print ... before she died and she was pleased with it. KARLA REINHARD I was born into the Chicago branch of Negroland. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician, and for som... MARGO JEFFERSON I was always impressed by Betty Ford and what she went through and how full of integrity she was, an... TERESA HEINZ JOAN SUTHERLAND She was a very devoted mother. She gave her life to her two kids. WALLDON DASILVA My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the f... VALORIE CURRY The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be po... SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played th... MADELEINE PEYROUX I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories ... DARYL HALL MARTIN AMIS ANGELINA JOLIE My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog wa... WENDY LIEBMAN My mother was a very prominent lady in New Orleans. Everybody knew my mother. If she dies here, nobo... ANNE WARD My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when... STANLEY HAUERWAS My father was a businessman, but my mother was an intellectual. She cared about culture, politics, a... JORGE M. PEREZ My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a column... SIOBHAN FALLON HOGAN GEORGE R.R. MARTIN MIRANDA JULY I had talked to her Sunday evening as she was leaving, before the hurricane came in. She took some i... DOROTHY DEMBOSKI The pictures came out and everyone was going: ?Oh my God, she only had her baby three days ago and l... ANNA FRIEL VENKATRAMAN RAMAKRISHNAN She came here to change her life, to get her daughter back -- that was what was real and pure in her... ANDREW LLOYD JODI PICOULT DENIS JOHNSON UNKNOWN Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or... IMELDA MAY MARKUS ZUSAK She was one of the main reasons I came to Duke. I took a recruiting trip and she was my host. She al... LEIGH ANNE HARDIN J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it w... NATALIA VODIANOVA BARRY SANDERS It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-e... ELLEN MUTH POLLY TOYNBEE GAIL COLLINS My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember h... JOHN LLOYD YOUNG TYLER PERRY My mother was totally different from the mothers of my friends. She would never separate from me. In... CHANTAL AKERMAN IAN MCEWAN She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more... BRAD MELTZER I was mostly concerned about her mentally being able to come back and accept that she's not going to... ENOCH BOROZINSKI SHERRILYN KENYON When Friedan came to Smith in the fall of 1938 from a provincial town in Illinois, she was not very ... DANIEL HOROWITZ She was merely an actress who had been forced to perform her part on stage without fully knowing her... ERICA SEHYUN SONG Her grandmother was a drug dealer. Her mother was a drug addict, and she never knew her father. Nico... GARY W. ADAIR I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own co... LAURA INNES I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very dif... VANESSA KERRY She just wanted to prove it to herself. But each year she just didn't improve as an athlete, she als... LESLIE STANFORD
More Jane Birkin
Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off! JANE BIRKIN I had a baby at 19 and was a grandmother by 39. Now, my children lend me their children to take them... JANE BIRKIN When you start recognising that you're having fun, life can be delightful. JANE BIRKIN I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of... JANE BIRKIN I colour my hair mousy brown and I wear makeup only on stage. I use Laura Mercier - something called... JANE BIRKIN Jacques Doillon wanted me to be in his film, 'La Fille Prodigue,' and there I was, expecting... JANE BIRKIN There's no fun in a bag if it's not kicked around so that it looks as if the cat's been ... JANE BIRKIN It's usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide. They can tell you all the anecdot... JANE BIRKIN I never have more than one bag at a time. I think one is already quite enough. Also, I hate changing... JANE BIRKIN My distinguishing feature is the gap between my teeth. I had to wear a brace because my teeth used t... JANE BIRKIN I have never written a book about my life, despite being offered purses of gold. I made 'Boxes&#... JANE BIRKIN People always like things that seem exotic. JANE BIRKIN My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and... JANE BIRKIN My father was a painter, so I was encouraged to take a sketchbook everywhere. Cameras are perishable... JANE BIRKIN A Birkin bag is a very good rain hat; just put everything else in a plastic bag. JANE BIRKIN If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides... JANE BIRKIN I feel most comfortable in an old pair of jeans, Converse, and a man's jersey. My best friend cu... JANE BIRKIN Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I alway... JANE BIRKIN I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. S... JANE BIRKIN I don't much enjoy travelling, but I have always longed to take a slow train to Russia. I'd ... JANE BIRKIN Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that mea... JANE BIRKIN At school, I used to hear, 'You're a half-caste.' They'd laugh at my figure and say,... JANE BIRKIN When I was at school I used to scream in trains, in those concertina things between the carriages. I... JANE BIRKIN I only like boutiques. JANE BIRKIN I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to i... JANE BIRKIN When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing ... JANE BIRKIN David Attenborough... has that wonderful, breathy voice, and he's always so fascinated by what h... JANE BIRKIN If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you. JANE BIRKIN He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn... JANE BIRKIN I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes. JANE BIRKIN You can have a plan, but you have to be flexible. Every day is unpredictable, and you just have to g... JANE KRAKOWSKI JANE FONDA JANE AUSTEN JANE PAULEY JANE AUSTEN JANE SEYMOUR JANE ADDAMS JANE JACOBS JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE ADDAMS JANE ELLIOT JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE ADDAMS I wanted to - any chance I had to dress up as a boy, like Halloween, I would be a pirate or a ghost ... JANE LYNCH JANE PAULEY I am very busy, life is very busy, and I was, I think, a somewhat lazy friend. I love them, I know t... JANE GREEN JANE FONDA JANE SMILEY JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE MCGONIGAL JANE AUSTEN JANE FONDA JANE ELLIOT I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family who... JANE CAMPION JANE AUSTEN JANE HADDAM The fact that I even get in Broadway shows is, to me, still amazing, but then to win a Tony was just... JANE KRAKOWSKI I thought," Shad said slowly, "that she was offended if you referred to Blind Seer or Elation as her... JANE LINDSKOLD After a day of watching the two-legs interact from within their midst, she was certain that they cou... JANE LINDSKOLD JANE RIDLEY JANE SMILEY JANE PAULEY It's always helpful to have somebody help buoy you in difficult times and problem-solve with and... JANE POYNTER JANE FONDA I have a theory that you can tell what the head of a company is like by the people who work there. I... JANE GREEN Don't let anyone discourage you from writing. If you become a professional writer, there are ple... JANE YOLEN Melanoma is not the most common of skin cancers, but it is the most dangerous if not found in the ea... JANE GREEN Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration a... JANE MAYER JANE GOODALL I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz it's helpful because people ... JANE CURTIN Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any... JANE GOODSELL JANE ELLIOT I was on 'Murder She Wrote' with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to eve... JANE BADLER JANE PAULEY There are other types of public appearances a writer does in addition to book signings and readings.... JANE LINDSKOLD THOMAS JANE JANE FONDA JANE HARRISON JANE PORTER JANE SEYMOUR JANE AUSTEN I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer. CALAMITY JANE We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889. CALAMITY JANE While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885. CALAMITY JANE During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis. CALAMITY JANE I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the ... CALAMITY JANE On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least th... CALAMITY JANE Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden ... CALAMITY JANE As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that t... CALAMITY JANE We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous... CALAMITY JANE When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got... CALAMITY JANE It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick s... CALAMITY JANE By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider fo... CALAMITY JANE JANE LEVY JANE FONDA You want, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so often, the main character POV is a bit mor... JANE GOLDMAN Thank God I've never had the sort of intense fame that means you can't walk up the road. Tha... JANE ASHER JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE JACOBS JANE AUSTEN JANE GOODALL JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE JOHNSON JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE SMILEY JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plai... JANE AUSTEN pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last ... JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE HARRISON JANE MANSFIELD JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE FONDA JANE WAGNER JANE ROBERTS JANE FONDA JANE JACOBS JANE FONDA JANE HARRISON JANE FONDA JANE WAGNER You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spe... JANE GOODSELL JANE ROBERTS JANE HOWARD JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE ADDAMS JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE ADDAMS JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be... JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE ADDAMS JANE ADDAMS JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN
My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I unders... 
My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it... 
My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved... 
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... 
My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother cam... 
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep... 
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I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She mad... 
I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very ... 
My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and ... 
My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recolle... 
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And when she started becoming a “young lady,” and no one was allowed to look at her because she ... 
My father emigrated from Lithuania to the United States at the age of 12. He received his higher edu... 
That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kind... 
When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes... 
Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always tol... 
Sissy had two great failings. She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tendernes... 
My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I... 
Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was calle... 
One girl who stands out was this Miami stripper. She still lives with her mother and father, and the... 
You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time ... 
I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I li... 
My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer. 
My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family. 
You can't blame her,' said Amit. 'After a life so full of tragedy anyone would become hard.'
She righted herself, her balance returning. Had she really thought the world didn't change? She was ... 
My mother was a very, very funny, outrageous, outspoken person, and she never edited me. Her whole t... 
I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer hers... 
Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schoo... 
My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own ... 
She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... 
For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was ... 
Unusually for an Indian man of his generation, my father, being aware of my mother's intellectua... 
she didn't need anyone. At Wheeler, even when she stood out with her pink hair and quilter army-surp... 
When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, an... 
My five-year-old daughter was asked by her teacher what her father does, and she replied, "Whatever ... 
When her hands reached out and poured the tea, it was as if she also poured something into me while ... 
My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art. 
My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her co... 
My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of t... 
I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were tradit... 
My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was tryi... 
She raised one hand and flexed its fingers and wondered, as she had sometimes before, how this thing... 
My father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife—"
You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebr... 
Every savage can dance. 
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At the end of the day, I let myself have a glass of wine. 
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There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the di... 
If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next. 
Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism. 
You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense. 
Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriag... 
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. 
Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying, and trying... 
Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to ... 
My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't re... 
The main reason why historians have skated over the relationship of Victorian PMs with the press is ... 
The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating t... 
A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame. 
Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot o... 
I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. ... 
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I loved 'Boogie Nights.' That was a great movie, and I had a lot of fun doing that. 
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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its ori... 
A lot of actresses I've worked with recently have done so much Botox their faces don't look ... 
I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but ... 
Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborh... 
Somewhere a bird sang, its chant hanging plaintive and melancholy in the still air...I think it's a ... 
To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with th... 
Men are creatures with eight hands. 
I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. 
When you affirm your own rightness in the universe, then you co-operate with others easily and autom... 
I worry that no matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up. 
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The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain - until it is secured for all of us and... 
America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is... 