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I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas. -- Irene Dunne
Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire. -- J. K. Rowling
My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes. -- Joyce Carol Oates
How can a guy climb trees, say Me Tarzan, You Jane, and make a million? -- Johnny Weissmuller
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales. -- Andrew Davies
Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively. -- Dave Navarro
When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father. -- Peter Fonda
The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? -- Bette Davis
Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen. -- Mark Haddon
Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of. -- Julie Walters
On April 3, 2014, Jane Goodall turned 80. The iconic blond ponytail has gone gray, but the sparkle of intelligence, sly humor, and fierce dedication still shines from her hazel eyes. -- David Quammen
To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife. -- Bruce Feirstein
When I'm an old lady, I'm going to have my pick of the young men. They'll be like, 'She's Miss Mary Jane!' The young boys will think I'm a hot old lady. -- Kirsten Dunst
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
I think I learned discipline on 'Jane Eyre.' Charlotte Bronte's dialogue, the intellectual duel between Rochester and Jane Eyre's character, is so compelling that you didn't have to do much with the placement of cameras. -- Cary Fukunaga
I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. The bread and butter of British TV is Jane Austen adaptations and bridges and bonnets and boats and horses. -- Tom Hiddleston
I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am happy, when I am nervous. My favourite British author is Jane Austen, and my favourite American one is John O'Hara. -- Carolina Herrera
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will. -- Terry Eagleton
I did a cover for 'Rolling Stone' the other day and it was a kind of crazy lack of outfit. I thought, 'Oh, Lord. I'm never going to be Jane Austen in a film now!' 'Cause that's what I'd really like to do. -- Rose McGowan
You only need to look at Jane Austen to see how crossed wires can become a defining aspect of romantic life. Then again, if the course of true love ran more smoothly, it would have a terribly detrimental effect on our cache of love stories. -- Mariella Frostrup
I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat. -- Anna Quindlen
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
I was always interested in animals, but when I was little, animal behavior was still a new science. It was available to become a veterinarian, it was available to study biology, but not specifically animal behavior. In the '60s, Jane Goodall was the founder of this new science. -- Isabella Rossellini
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I'm a Jewish Jane Austen. -- Howard Jacobson
Jane Austen is very amusing. -- James Callis
Jane Campion is a tough director. -- Kate Winslet
I'm playing like Tarzan-and scoring like Jane. -- Chi Chi Rodriguez
One doesn't read Jane Austen; one re-reads Jane Austen. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
I was fed up with being just plain Jane. -- Jayne Meadows
I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl. -- Maggie Grace
I've never got on very well with Jane Austen. -- Anita Brookner
To Jane Austen, every fool is a treasure trove. -- Mason Cooley
Jane: Focus is important. V: Only if you're a microscope. -- J.R. Ward
How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel! -- Dodie Smith
You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own. -- Charlotte Bronte
I would say anything is possible on 'Jane the Virgin.' -- Justin Baldoni
Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know. -- Charlotte Bronte
There are more stakes [in Mary and Jane], which is always good. -- Deborah Kaplan
What good is it to look like Tarzan and play like Jane? -- John Welborn
It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda. -- Terry Southern
Culture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands -- Bob Hope
Me, Tarzan. You, Jane. I kill bad guy. Beat chest. Tarzan howl. -- Stephanie Rowe
If there was a Jane Austen camp, I would go, no question. -- Stephenie Meyer
I always loved the style of Jean Seberg, Jane Birkin and Marilyn Monroe. -- Helena Christensen
I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen. -- Mary McCarthy
Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time. -- Jasper Fforde
As Annie Proulx is to Wyoming, so is Jane Candia Coleman to Arizona. -- Clive Sinclair
Jane Austen is the feminine Peter Pan of letters. She never grew up. -- George Sampson
Make haste" Jane added, just because she always wanted to say that. -- Shannon Hale
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen. -- J. K. Rowling
I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell. -- Richard Griffiths
I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table. -- A. N. Wilson
The best lies to tell," said Jane, "are the ones people want to believe. -- Jasper Fforde
A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah. -- Ronald Reagan
He had a lot of different smiles, and Jane was getting to know them all. -- Lauren Conrad
Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating -- Mark Haddon
It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing. -- Terry Pratchett
Blue. My name's Blue Sargent.' 'Blair?' 'Blue.' 'Blaize?' Blue sighed. 'Jane -- Maggie Stiefvater
I kinda go for the Jane Eyre type of film. I am fascinated by classics. -- Tippi Hedren
Written on the mirror, revealed by the steam, were the words, I love you, Jane. -- J.R. Ward
Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken. -- Charlotte Bronte
It is not like every episode [of "Mary and Jane"] people are sitting around getting high. -- Deborah Kaplan
That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end. -- Eric Avery
I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade. -- Perry Farrell
I feel it's like being a kid and dressing up, because that's what Baby Jane is. -- Millicent Martin
Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away. -- David Nicholls
Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours. -- Edgar Rice Burroughs
We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous. -- Robert Patrick
His gift is slower than Jane's. It creeps. It will touch us in a few seconds. -- Stephenie Meyer
But, Jane, I summon you as my wife: it is you only I intend to marry. -- Charlotte Bronte
I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes. -- Will Self
I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for? -- Alanis Morissette
Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl. -- Dodie Smith
I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest. -- Norma McCorvey
It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding. -- Karen Joy Fowler
All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading. -- Anna Quindlen
We weren't radical chic. Jane Fonda embarrassed me. We belonged to no political parties. Basically, we were vaudevillians. -- Tom Smothers
Whatâ??s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didnâ??t they? -- Danielle Steel
I used the name Jane Roe because I didnt want my personal name to be involved in it. -- Norma McCorvey
Rochester: My bride is here, because my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you marry me? -- Charlotte Bronte
I used the name Jane Roe because I didn't want my personal name to be involved in it. -- Norma McCorvey
Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven. -- Mark Twain
...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964 -- Harper Lee
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature. -- Anne Stevenson
Pride and Prejudice' is often compared to 'Cinderella,' but Jane Austen's real 'Cinderella' tale is 'Mansfield Park.' -- Susanna Clarke
I love to direct my daughter, and act with her, and we both want to work with Jane again. -- Peter Fonda
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature." -- Anne Stevenson
Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness. -- Seth Grahame-Smith
'Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness. -- Seth Grahame-Smith
I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro. -- Amy Waldman
In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else. -- Gabrielle Zevin
There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer. -- Leslie Caron
Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life. -- Edward Abbey
The original pilot script [ of "Mary and Jane"], we literally just wrote for fun. It was, let's just do this. -- Harry Elfont
Dear Jane, Just so you know: e. e. cummings cheated on both of his wives. With prostitutes. Yours, Will Grayson -- John Green
It is a long way off, sir" "From what Jane?" "From England and from Thornfield: and ___" "Well?" "From you, sir -- Charlotte Bronte
French girls still have the Jane Birkin culture. You can go just like that, without makeup, without managing your hair. -- Emmanuelle Alt
Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon. -- Michael Chabon
Aunt Jane observed, the second time She tumbled off a bus, 'The step is short from the Sublime To the Ridiculous. -- Harry Graham
Any time you are put in the same category as Jane Fonda, a real legend, it feels surreal, perhaps even undeserved. -- Megan Ellison
I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun. -- Taye Diggs
The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers. -- Harold Bloom
I'm named after Jane Austen's Emma, and I've always been able to relate to her. She's strong, confident but quite tactless. -- Emma Donoghue
I bought all those [fitness] videos -- Richard Simmons, Jane Fonda. I love to sit and eat cookies and watch 'em. -- Dolly Parton
I don't want to call the show [ "Mary and Jane" ] a satire because it is not, but there are satirical elements. -- Harry Elfont
We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to. -- Hanoi Hannah
Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence. -- Charlotte Bronte
It is just fun to play with [in "Mary and Jane"]. I think our sense of humor tends to go that way. -- Harry Elfont
It's very difficult to get your ideas to Hollywood if you're the average Joe or Jane. An agent wouldn't bother with you. -- Bruce Nash
She had gradually changed her name. "Jane" was too dull. Last year, she'd added a "y", becoming Jayne, which had more personality. -- Caroline B. Cooney
Once I started writing the screenplay of 'Bride & Prejudice,' I was convinced Jane Austen was a Punjabi in her previous birth. -- Gurinder Chadha
Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet. -- C. J. Cherryh
Because I had grown up with Jane Austen novels and period dramas, I was very familiar with that period and that world. -- Gugu Mbatha-Raw
We ["Mary and Jane"] did not want to be a weed show, like it is a bunch of people sitting around smoking. -- Harry Elfont
Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles. -- Tracy Chevalier
Not to be confused with Spider-Man's other girlfriend Mary Jane Watson, who is a skank and doesn't love him like I do. -- Emma Stone
I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table. -- A. N. Wilson
I don't think we had a hard time with ["Mary and Jane"]. It is just, it was the constant management of it. -- Harry Elfont
Now I was more certain than ever of my decision. I could not love a man who did not love Jane Austen. -- Deanna Raybourn

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