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Jane Birkin

"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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"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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Donna Grant

"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."

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Donna Grant

"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."

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Donna Grant

"My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you."

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Donna Grant

"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."

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Donna Grant

"But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome."

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Donna Grant

"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."

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Donna Grant

"I just cleared the slate and thought of her as a mother and went from there."

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Donna Grant

"My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?"

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Donna Grant

"I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to."

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Donna Grant

"I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother."

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Jane Birkin
"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."

Mother

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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."

Home

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Jane Birkin
"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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Jane Birkin
"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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Jane Birkin
"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."

Thought

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Jane Birkin
"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."

Love

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Jane Birkin
"People always like things that seem exotic."

People

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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't paint me anymore."

Love

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Jane Birkin
"If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you."

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Jane Birkin
"Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!"

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