Judith Tarr Quotes

Women in the post-Fifties world were appendages. They existed to serve men. Their lives and concerns didn't matter, except insofar as they impinged on Important Male Things.

Judith Tarr

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 30, 1955

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It's great to be able to play the 'bad guy' role, because you always get a lot to do, but I'm always looking at the why - how does a person get to that particular point.

Jimmy Smits

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People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

Joan Rivers

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I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.

John Travolta

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I grew up in northwest London on a council estate. My parents are Irish immigrants who came over here when they were very young and worked in menial jobs all their lives, and I'm one of many siblings.

Amanda Hale

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We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet.

Subcomandante Marcos

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A word about blue jeans, which, when I was growing up, were called dungarees, one of the more unfortunate marketing ideas of our time: Starting as a work garment for miners, the ubiquitous blue jeans became a staple of the counterculture starting when Brando wore them in 'On the Waterfront' and remained so through the anti-war protests of the '70s.

Roger Stone

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If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.

Jojo Moyes

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I know who I am by now. And I am my own brand.

Chloe Sevigny

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It's something my mother believed in: If you are in a position of privilege, if you can put your name to something that you genuinely believe in, you can smash any stigma you want, and you can encourage anybody to do anything.

Prince Harry

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Pakistan is also a victim of terrorism. We obviously condemn all forms of terrorism; we should cooperate in facing the menace and stem it.

Shehbaz Sharif

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I had to change the shape of my own voice. It was quite hard to pull off and so once I had it, I stayed in Hitchcock's voice all day on set.

Toby Jones

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I will not accept a role just because a big hero stars in it. I am not here to merely dance, run around trees, and be a glam doll.

Nithya Menen

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