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At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

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Jessica Lange
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 20
Actress
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Television Actor
Cloquet
Minnesota
Jessica Phyllis Lange
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The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
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TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary with independent films, you just can't.
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I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one
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To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.
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There was a period of time when I was very political, when I was at the university. It was like the late '60s, early '70s and I was a dissident like everybody else I guess. Now I follow it but there's nothing that really grabs me. The most fascinating thing to me right now is China.
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I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off.
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The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want to work with a director, even if the script or the part's not that great.
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Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.
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It [military action on Iraq] makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating.
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One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.
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This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
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Digital doesn't interest me. It's too many steps removed from the actual tactile thing. I still read books. I don't read online.
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For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
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Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.
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When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.
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If Ive got a clean pair of jeans and a T-shirt, thats usually a good day for me.
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I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.
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There can be no better measure of our governance than the way we treat our children, and no greater failing on our part than to allow them to be subjected to violence, abuse or exploitation.
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