Naomi Alderman Quotes

The demands of having to be 'masculine' are as damaging to men as the demands of having to be 'feminine' are to women. I wish we could all agree just to wash it all away. Begin again.

Naomi Alderman

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I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.

Jill Abramson

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I think it's always wonderful to dress people in the public eye. It's the icing on the cake and such an endorsement of what we do.

Jenny Packham

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I've been every size in the world. Parts of my twenties, I was in great shape, but I didn't appreciate it. 'If I was a 6 or an 8,' I thought, 'Why aren't I a 2 or a 4?'

Melissa McCarthy

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When you're a stand-up comic, you live and die by what you say on stage. There's no director or writer or producer who can tell you what to say and not to say. Once in a while, a club owner will ask a comic to work clean, or not say something, but that's few and far between.

Maz Jobrani

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I was never very mature in my relationships with women. First sign of conflict, I was gone.

John Mahoney

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I was skinny. I wore thick glasses. I had acne.

John Hickenlooper

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If each of your time steps is one week long, you are not modeling the stock price terribly well over a one-week time period, because you are saying that there are only two possible outcomes.

John Hull

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When moms and dads put their kids in acting class, good luck. Because you're just filling them with stuff they don't need yet.

Anna Chlumsky

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If you were looking at where you would like your career to go, then you would have to cherry pick The Stones. People love coming to see them. They are it, they are the most definitive rock n roll band ever.

Andy Taylor

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The role of matriarch and patriarch are distinct, and in the King family, we have been blessed with strong examples of both.

Alveda King

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I believe more in the power of drama than in the power of religion.

Tony Harrison

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I'm in a constant conflict about having to make a movie for the big and the small screen at the same time, stylistically. So I just basically make it for the large screen.

Robert Zemeckis

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