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We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

Jane Fonda

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Jane Fonda
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: December 21
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New York City
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Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda
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No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.
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We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
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The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
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I lived in France during the '60s. I was there from the early '60s until 1970, so my view of the '60s is more global. It was a time of tremendous transition, not only for America but for the whole world.
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I vowed I wouldn't get married until someone gave me one good reason to. No one ever did - but I got married anyway.
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If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist. . . . I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.
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