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Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.

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Jessica Lange
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 20
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Minnesota
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I went to the University of Minnesota to study art. I left the university to come to New York and live in Soho. I got involved with like a small kind of like experimental theater-mime company and we discovered that Étienne Decroux, a great mime, was still teaching in Paris so I went to study with him for several years.
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I want to live my life with no goals anymore, but just completely free, like I did when I was younger.
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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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I never just slide through anything. I explore everything to the fullest, whether good or bad.
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When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.
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