Jane Birkin Quotes
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I remember being married to John Barry and trying to be the best wife in the world.
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Everything I wear doesnt put me in the league of women. If I were a boy, I could look a lot prettier than a lot…
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My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.
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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…
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I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.
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Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!
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I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I was very conventional because I came from a conventional family and I didn't…
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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,…
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But who wants an easy life ? It's boring !
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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.
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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…
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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…
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If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.
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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.
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I only like boutiques.
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People always like things that seem exotic.
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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…
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When I was at school I used to scream in trains, in those concertina things between the carriages. I used to try to be so…
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My look is a cocktail. I'm not as nicely turned out as the french, but I don't care like the English.
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Big Ben... hearing the chimes makes me feel at home.
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