Rebecca Traister Quotes

You know how few movies there are in the world about women and their work? I mean, it's like 'Silkwood' and 'Erin Brokovich.' There are exceptions, but they are so exceptional.

Rebecca Traister

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You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.

Mem Fox

CultureExperienceAppreciateResult

What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.

Anish Kapoor

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Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly.

John Prescott

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What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult. What was difficult, in my opinion, was making it look so genuine, so effortless. I equally have tried to remain unseen on the screen.

Stanley Donen

OpinionDoingLookWantGenuineGot

Under our Constitution, if you're a bad citizen, you're still a citizen; that's the way we roll.

Steve Bannon

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I'm a spiritual person. I'm not very religious. I was raised Catholic, but I am influenced a lot by Buddhism and Hinduism.

Rodrigo Santoro

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This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.

Mikhail Bakunin

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If you tried to sell Mike Birbiglia as a concept, no one would buy it.

Mike Birbiglia

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Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

Joyce Meyer

ChangeInsecurityToughUncertainty

I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff.

Jason Bateman

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I'm more aware of time. The element of time.

Dianne Wiest

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