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Ellen Ullman Quotes

The questions I am often asked about my career tend to concentrate not on how one learns to code but how a woman does.

Recitation: by Male by Female

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Nationality: american

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Woman I Am Questions Career Code

I lucked out. I got in just when animation just started to take off.

Animation Out Take Started Off Just

When women say that going on publications directed at men is somehow demeaning, I don't think that's true. I think that's one really effective way to change the societal standard women are held to.

Change Women Men Think Say True

Everyone I talk to has a Genesis story to tell.

Mike Rutherford

Story Talk Everyone Tell Genesis

I spent a lot of time learning how to define myself internally rather than externally. I learned how to care less about external validation. I think that's given me a renewed confidence in speaking out loud. I kind of don't care what people think about me. I feel a lot more confident in saying what I believe.

Learning Confidence Time Myself Me

It's a simple quality of human nature that people prefer to choose to do things rather than be ordered to do them. In fact, as soon as you tell me I have to do something - give a speech, attend a banquet, go to Cannes - I immediately start looking for ways to avoid doing it.

Nature Quality Simple People Start

Winning and losing, that's never been my objective. It's my hope that in the fullness of time, the majority of the court will come to see things as I do.

Hope Time Losing Winning Will Never

In everything I've written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don't have a picture of myself as writing crime novels. I like fairly strong narratives, but it's a way of getting a plot moving.

Myself Moving Writing Strong Picture

For acting, once I am doing a movie, I am fully into that. But I am not one to chase films. When it comes, it comes.

Shenaz Treasury

I Am Doing Acting Chase Movie Once

Tolkien was quite a religious man, and so is George R.R. Martin. They kind of have this epic quality about them when they write the material.

Quality Man Kind Write Epic Quite

Taking care of children was not something I was good at.

Good Children Care Something Taking

I'm a writer and a feminist of color, and I've written complex, powerful women for my entire career. I'm just one voice, but there are many others like me.

Women Me Voice Color Powerful Just

Audiences deserve better.

Better Deserve Audiences

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