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My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.
Jane Birkin
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I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.
Jane Birkin
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He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore.
Jane Birkin
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I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having.
Jane Birkin
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I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream.
Jane Birkin
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Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all.
Jane Birkin
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I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.
Jane Birkin
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I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.
Jane Birkin
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If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.
Jane Birkin
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Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.
Jane Birkin
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If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free.
Jane Birkin
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