Glennon Doyle Melton Quotes

We're told that to be successful girls, we have to be small and quiet. Yet to be successful humans, we have to become big and have a voice. There's an inherent contradiction.

Glennon Doyle Melton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 20, 1976

Topics

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Speaking up for the truth isn't always easy. It takes courage, but it's necessary.

Amber Valletta

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I bled a lot. I got hit across the face. We couldn't film for seven days. I got hit, whacked, underwater, across the face. I finished the shot, got into the boat and blood started coming out.

Steve Irwin

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I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten.

Spike Lee

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I think the graphic novel form works, in practice, a lot differently from watching a movie. You can put it down and pick it back up whenever you want - something you can't do in a theater.

Travis Beacham

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I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.

Rufus Wainwright

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I know I'm being judged, and anyone who works in the public eye will get some negativity at some point. It can be tough and it hurts. I can be very tough on myself. Occasionally, I hear or read something cruel and I'm shocked.

Deborra-Lee Furness

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I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor.

Alice Walker

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So many people know about the dangers of sunbeds but when you have a busy active lifestyle you need a product that you can use quickly and doesn't streak or leave you with orange hands.

Peter Andre

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I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak.

Paula Malcomson

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You can look good. Don't let nobody tell you you can't look good because of your size... or what size your feet is.

Leslie Jones

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When I first came into the business, I had to, for the sake of being able to sell myself as an artist, always be happy and jovial and smiling. I was the happy nice girl, and I am the happy nice girl, but I have my moments, too.

Kelly Price

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Twenty years ago, I was part of a movement of millions of people who were going after freedom. But today, they look and they say, 'What are the advantages of freedom?' So far, it's the vote and maybe, in certain places, lack of police harassment. You can live anywhere you want and do anything you want - if you have the means.

Hugh Masekela

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