Ann Powers Quotes

Personally, I've realized that the tradition I thought of as too safe, too pretty, and too conventional is the space where women have been able to gain some practical ground. The area of music where we thought the status quo was really being upset - specifically hard rock - has actually remained the most male-dominated.

Ann Powers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 4, 1964

Topics

WomenMusicSpaceThoughtTradition

MoMA is one of the world's great cultural institutions with one of the world's premier Boards and Museum leadership. It is my distinct pleasure to work with such a talented and highly qualified group. I salute Bob Menschel for the high bar he has set and follow him in the position of Chairman with all the respect he has earned.

Jerry Speyer

WorkLeadershipRespectGreatWorld

I've never really been a careerist; I've never been able to step back and look at anything in that way. I though this is just what happens. I did take my work very seriously. I loved immersing myself in a character. I loved getting the opportunity to do that. I didn't realize how extraordinary it was, how lucky I was, because I was young.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

WorkCharacterOpportunityMyself

A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

DeathManStoryTragedyNowHigh

About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible.

John Woolman

AgeRespectManCareYearNoble

But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

Stephen Sprouse

TimeArchitectureSchoolFashionGo

White people are very wily when it comes to race. We will do everything that we can to get out from under the idea of race.

Robin DiAngelo

PeopleWhiteWillRaceEverything

When I was little, acting opportunities were always proposed to me as 'a favour.'

Rory Culkin

MeOpportunitiesActingAlwaysWere

There is nothing quite like 'The Night of the Hunter'. I have never seen a film to which it can be fairly compared.

Douglas McGrath

NightNothingNeverHunterFilm

My fans are all pretty cool, you know; I've never really seen anybody fighting on Twitter, no death threats, no harsh language, no gay slurs, nothing like that.

Drake Bell

DeathCoolLanguageFightingYou

My children keep me real and keep me honest.

Brooke Burke

ChildrenMeRealHonestKeep

When I was made CEO of Reynolds the first time, someone asked me what it was like to be a female CEO. But I said, 'I don't know what its like to be a male CEO, so I can't really answer that question.'

Susan Cameron

TimeMeSomeoneKnowSaidFirst

The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already exists to improve fuel economy - technology that the automakers refuse to bring into the market despite societal demand.

Sherwood Boehlert

TechnologyTransportationOilLimit

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Ann Powers