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You don’t learn from successes you don’t learn from awards you don’t learn from celebrity you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.

Jane Fonda

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Jane Fonda
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 21
Actor
Actress
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Film Producer
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Stage Actor
Television Actor
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New York City
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Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda
Hanoi Jane
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Jane Seymour Fonda
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The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.
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No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.
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I wasn't pretty enough to be the pretty girl and I wasn't unattract­ive enough to be the dorky girl.
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When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn't matter.
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Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen.
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Being by myself, that is to say, without a man - it's been a long time - is allowing me to know what it feels like - to live in my own skin, to remember what I miss and don't miss about a relationship.
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I'll smoke pot every now and then. I cannot see a movie on pot. The number of movies I've seen thinking, This is probably the best I have ever seen, and then I'll see it again sober and think, What was I thinking?
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My life is a stairway to heaven, not a 'decline into decrepitude.
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How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?
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Don't give up. There are lessons to be learned even in the most horrendous pain. And you don't know that when you're young.
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You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
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