I love working with an audience. I love working with actual people who, you know, if they're moved, you see it. If you say something they're stunned by, you see their jaws drop. If they're amused, they laugh - that kind of reinforcement, I totally adore.


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Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really...
JANE AUSTEN
In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to te...
JANE AUSTEN
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving peop...
JANE AUSTEN
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plai...
JANE AUSTEN
Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last ...
JANE AUSTEN
...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN
To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with th...
JANE HARRISON
Men are creatures with eight hands.
JANE MANSFIELD
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
JANE AUSTEN
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
JANE AUSTEN
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
JANE AUSTEN
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
JANE AUSTEN
Telling lies and showing off to get attention are the mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to m...
JANE FONDA
I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
JANE WAGNER
When you affirm your own rightness in the universe, then you co-operate with others easily and autom...
JANE ROBERTS
A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
JANE FONDA
But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism ...
JANE JACOBS
You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful ...
JANE FONDA
A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not...
JANE HARRISON
My husband said he wanted to have a relationship with a redhead, so I dyed my hair.
JANE FONDA
I worry that no matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.
JANE WAGNER
You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spe...
JANE GOODSELL
Channels, psychological and psychic, always exist, sending communications back and forth through the...
JANE ROBERTS
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever ...
JANE HOWARD
From politics it was an easy step to silence.
JANE AUSTEN
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
JANE AUSTEN
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
JANE AUSTEN
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerab...
JANE AUSTEN
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itsel...
JANE ADDAMS
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
JANE AUSTEN
It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good co...
JANE AUSTEN
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, s...
JANE AUSTEN
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than o...
JANE AUSTEN
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain - until it is secured for all of us and...
JANE ADDAMS
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
JANE AUSTEN
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, noth...
JANE AUSTEN
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
JANE AUSTEN
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
JANE AUSTEN
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
JANE AUSTEN
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
JANE AUSTEN
I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
JANE AUSTEN
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor o...
JANE AUSTEN
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
JANE AUSTEN