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Glenda Jackson Quotes

If a woman is successful, then she's deemed to be the exception that proves the rule. If a woman fails, well, we're all failures. That kind of underlying approach to our gender doesn't seem to me to have changed an iota.

Glenda Jackson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: british
Birth: May 9, 1936

Topics

Woman Me Gender Kind She Successful

When we go city by city, country by country, the majority of our hosts, our owners, are simply renting out their spare bedroom.

Joe Gebbia

City Country Go Bedroom Out Simply

I could float in the pool for hours, just letting the water carry me.

Jill Scott

Water Me Pool Carry Float Just

In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting techniques that we read about in magazines.

Jennifer Lee

Family Childhood American Rare Odd

There are no shortcuts to true excellence.

Angela Duckworth

Excellence True Shortcuts

I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.

Meryl Streep

Great Enough Lucky Get Some Few

I have a saying: There are no brave old people in finance. Because if you're brave, you mostly get destroyed in your 30s and 40s. If you make it to your 50s and 60s and you're still prospering, you have a very good sense of how to avoid problems and when to be conservative or aggressive with your investments.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Good Finance People Brave Saying

I'm quite obsessed with words.

Sigrid

Words Quite Obsessed

We need to establish boundaries between our personal and professional lives. When we don't, our work, our health, and our personal lives suffer.

Travis Bradberry

Work Health Professional Personal

Fewer jobs, at lower pay. That's what Obamacare means.

Robert Zubrin

Pay Means Obamacare Jobs Lower

I have about 1,000 hours of myself on tape in a vault in Los Angeles. But I also have a photographic memory about my jokes, because they're really about me; they're my stories.

Louie Anderson

Myself Memory Me Los Angeles Jokes

I have never, ever slept through my child crying unless I have had a sleeping tablet; and I only take a sleeping tablet when I know Steve, my husband, is on duty. We take turns: he does one night, I do the next.

Deirdre O'Kane

Child Night Husband Know Duty Never

In the five years from 2007 to 2012, we only gained a little over 1,200 farmers. Since we aren't going to stop eating, we have to reverse that trend, or we'll see even more consolidation, more corporate farms, or increasing food imports; none of that is in our interest.

Chris Gibson

Food Eating Stop More Farmers See