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Jane Birkin

"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."

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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, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror."

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"Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again."

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"Everything I'd been longing to get away from, true, but not through destruction. I'd wanted to leave home, but have it stay in place, waiting for me, unchanged, so I could step back into it at will."

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"I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns."

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"We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets."

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"My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home."

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"Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time."

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"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."

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"I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home."

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"The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."

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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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"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 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."
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"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."
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"Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!"
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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 not at all."
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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 elderly in residential homes wander free."
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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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