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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: 87
Born: 1937
Born: December 21
Actor
Actress
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Film Producer
Model
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Writer
New York City
New York
Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda
Hanoi Jane
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Jane Seymour Fonda
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I've always felt like a teacher. Whenever I've learned something important, my reaction has always been to tell everybody about it. I read a book, I buy 100 copies and I send them out.
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Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.
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