Joss Whedon Quotes

When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her with men that not only have no problem with the idea of a female leader, but were in fact engaged and even attracted to the idea.

Joss Whedon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 23, 1964

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I have six sisters, so I assumed I'd have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird.

Melissa Joan Hart

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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

Stella Adler

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A young fella snuck out on to the field somehow, but when he was coming up to give me a hug, he got smoked by the guard. He was lucky the guy didn't break his ribs.

Sonny Bill Williams

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When you're a kid, right, and you're surrounded by all these other kids, and let's say they don't have the same interests or the same goals or the same world view as you... It's difficult because a child doesn't know that there's another way. A child doesn't know that there's another place outside of the systems and hierarchies in school.

Roisin Murphy

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For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.

Rumer Godden

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The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.

Rupert Brooke

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Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise.

Mary Szybist

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I love great locations in movies, and I couldn't believe I'd never seen a landfill on screen before. It was the most haunting place.

Lucy Walker

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I like to eat. Definitely. I love sitting around a table with my friends. But I don't know how to cook anything.

Donatella Versace

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I just believe strongly that anybody who wants to pursue additional education after high school ought to be given that chance.

Brian Schatz

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I believe that democracy is the best guarantor for peace and cooperation among nations.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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