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Geena Davis Quotes

How do we encourage a lot more girls to pursue science, technology, and engineering careers? By casting droves of women in STEM jobs today in movies and on TV.

Geena Davis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: January 21, 1956

Topics

Women Technology Today Science More

I used to draw and illustrate, but I don't do that anymore because I just like to write. I like to leave the illustrations to actual professional illustrators.

Meg Cabot

Professional Write Leave Used Just

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

John Keats

Valentine's Day You New Always Last

You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism.

John Lasseter

You Know Movies Entertainment Cheap

To be sure, those who are actually engaged in combat - those who actually see the maimed bodies and mourning mothers - struggle more than the rest of us to make sense of the reality of war.

Stanley Hauerwas

Struggle War Rest Reality More See

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Spike Milligan

Hero Legs Coward

Men get together, and they complain about their wives because it's what they feel they're supposed to do. It's as phony as your frat-buddy's stupid tribal tattoos, and everybody knows it.

Steven Crowder

Men Together Stupid Get Together Get

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.

Rupert Holmes

Story Early Career Songs Wrote Had

You don't really see sleepwalking in films that often. It's weird; I feel like in popular culture we have the perception of sitcom, arms-in-front-of-your-body sleepwalking, and then maybe Olive Oil and Popeye when she sleepwalks through the construction site. But it's all very cartoonish, in some cases literally.

Mike Birbiglia

Culture Construction Perception Weird

I like to see my parents, and they like it when I'm around.

Josh Gondelman

Parents See Like Around

'Meek's Cutoff' by Kelly Reichardt - it's beautifully shot. It's a complex story. The filmmaker gave a very patient and feminine touch to a story that takes place during a period of history that's very masculine, without losing any of the unforgiving harshness of the reality where the characters found themselves in.

Chloe Zhao

History Losing Story Reality Place

My natural tendency is to write about zombie bunnies, but one of my first writing teachers got incorporated into my writing superego, and I keep hearing his admonition to make things feel more real the weirder they get.

Chris Adrian

Writing Feel Teachers Write First

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

Citium Zeno

Death Evil Honorable Therefore