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Mary Antin Quotes

On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: russian
Birth: February 24, 1909 - May 15, 1949

Topics

Birthday Police Fly House Royal

Girls are supposed to be feminine and demure. Comedy isn't about that, so you just have to unlearn it. Certain women are so pretty, they can't go weird enough to be funny. You have to be willing to be ugly. I'm lucky my face can look so hideous.

Jennifer Coolidge

Funny Women Ugly Face Weird Comedy

When the new becomes commonplace, people become accustomed to it. That's a tribute to our sense of adventure.

Adventure People New Become Sense

You know, my dad was a lieutenant colonel at Ft. Lewis on the 3rd of March, 1941. Fifteen months later, he was commanding a theater of war.

John Eisenhower

War You Know March Colonel He

There's a toxicity within gaming culture, and also in tech culture, that drives this misogynist hatred, this reactionary backlash against women who have anything to say, especially those who have critiques or who are feminists.

Anita Sarkeesian

Women Culture Gaming Say Hatred Who

I don't play any tournaments to come second best.

Best Play Come Second Any

New York gets under your skin, and I think once you've fallen in love with New York, you take that with you. I love New York.

Love New York Think You Skin New

When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic.

You Tell Cancer Panic

Growing up in New Jersey, bat mitzvas were all about the elegant parties.

Growing Up New Growing Elegant Up

There has always been this narrator in me - I loved ideas, and part of the great love affair I would have with ideas consisted of talking about them.

Love Great Me Ideas Loved Talking

When I'm near a native community, I visit it. If I hear there's a spiritual person in the neighborhood, I'll seek them out.

Community Spiritual Person Out Seek

I've always been better at informing the audience through images than through words, but I took on a script that was so dialogue-intensive, that the words had to do all the informing.

Jonathan Glazer

Words Better Always Audience Through

If you're talented and hardworking, great - good for you. You're gonna make it; you're gonna go places. But if you're talented and don't have the work element behind it, the guy that works harder is going to eventually outpace you and outrun you.

Work Good Great You Go Places

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