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Alison Bechdel Quotes

Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now.

Alison Bechdel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: cartoonist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 10, 1960

Topics

Life Brain Writing Book Feel Now

Ossie Davis is one of my heroes for civil rights and things like that.

Joe R. Lansdale

Civil Rights Heroes Rights Things

I wanted to be a plumber.

Robert Goulet

Plumber Wanted

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

Stephen Covey

Attitude Space Choose Where Response

When I got the script for 'Mr. Robot,' I was auditioning for a bunch of stuff. I had an audition going for a movie at the time that I wanted to do.

Stephanie Corneliussen

Time Robot Got Going Audition Stuff

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

Romain Rolland

Life Mistakes Moving On Mistake

If you believe in equality, if you believe in standing up for the rights of all, especially for people most affected by bigotry and discrimination, then you have no choice but to be present and accounted for when it comes to standing up for gays and lesbians in our society.

Michael Moore

Equality People Society Believe You

I can't do anything in a minute.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

Anything Minute

I think the legacy Ronda leaves behind is that she changed women's MMA.

Jose Aldo

Women Legacy Think She MMA Behind

When people think of biblical movies, they imagine sweeping epics like 'The Ten Commandments.' But 'The Gospel According to St. Matthew' is essentially a documentary about Jesus. It made me aware of how real life and personal experience can create more breathtaking, sensitive cinema than more sophisticated techniques.

Derek Cianfrance

Life Experience People Me Think

You want to go to a summer concert and not watch a band staring at its shoes for six hours and complaining.

Bret Michaels

Shoes You Summer Want Complaining

I didn't get upset because I wasn't nominated, but I was a little surprised.

Bruce Beresford

Upset Little Because Get Surprised

My interest as an artist is to illuminate the lives of black folks. I definitely am focused on films that illustrate all that we are and all our nuance and all our complicated beauty and mess, and when you're telling those stories, you gotta have black actors.

Ava DuVernay

Beauty Black You Artist Complicated