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Russell Smith Quotes

Most critics of gender division are women, and they're worried about girls and the roles presented for them by gendered entertainments. They are quite right to be. Telling girls that the cars and the guns are beyond their domain of expertise, and that they should content themselves with clothes and friendships, is limiting.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: August 2, 1963

Topics

Women Gender Clothes Beyond Right

I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!

Life Friendship Good Live Art Light

I've been reading poetry publicly for 20 years, and this is what you do - you express, you sometimes dig a bit to get a conversation started. That's the point of poetry. You're supposed to go, 'Hmmmm,' and 'Woooh!'

Poetry Reading You Conversation Go

In the end, being the writer on set is a bit like having organised a big party, but you're not allowed to eat or drink anything. You just have to stand in the corner.

End Stand You Party Drink Eat

When I was a kid, I built miniatures, and that was actually the first thing I did professionally in the film industry. It was a demonstrable skill that I had, so I worked as a model maker.

Skill First Kid Industry Film Model

God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.

Robert H. Schuller

God Creative Writing Thinking Career

It's tough to work with kids. Kids are animals!

Jean-Marc Vallee

Work Tough Animals Kids

There's a lot of insecure, sad people in any profession.

Sad People Profession Insecure Any

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

Legal Authority Oppression Heavy

My whole thing was, as much as I was inspired by what my parents do, and growing up on film sets, watching that made me really want to do that. I am my own person, and I think that the only thing with the Hemingway name is that it has gotten me in the door.

I Am Parents Me Door Growing Up

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.

Failure World Global Warming Act

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon... what it means to you.

Christopher McCandless

Relationship Value Meaning You True

I don't think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages.

Women Men Speak Think Buy Here

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