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Naomi Wolf Quotes

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: November 12, 1962

Topics

Pain People Believe Madness You Get

Onstage, I channel my inner goddess. Everyday Jillian is definitely more low-key: jeans and a crop top with a sneaker or boot.

Goddess Everyday More Top Jeans

I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know.

Life Live Myself People Problems

My dad had a temper. I have a temper. Most people I know have a temper. And I think it comes out mostly with your family. I don't think it's unique to the Buscemis, but it's something I've been able to tap into when I play certain roles.

Family People Think Unique Play Out

When I started out in independent films in the early '70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn't about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You'd die before you'd be bought.

Love Art Money Die You Early

I've always known that writing plays is very difficult, because I've written three or four that have never been produced.

Rodman Philbrick

Writing Three Never Difficult Always

I come from a background that stresses education more than anything.

Education More Anything Come Than

But I think it's intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.

Think Somebody Who I Think

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.

Beauty Attitude Women Ideas Think

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

Douglas Coupland

Loneliness Woman Man Book Him Out

For a comedy to work, magic has to happen.

Work Comedy Magic Happen

Rio was always going to be on the schedule for me, whether I had won in London or not. Triathlon is one of those sports where the Olympics is always the most important and the most interesting race, and I always wanted to have a crack at Rio and defend my title.

Alistair Brownlee

Sports Me Interesting Important Race

Our post-denominational age should be the perfect time for a Mormon to become president, or at least the Republican nominee. Mormons share nearly all the conservative commitments so beloved of the evangelicals who wield disproportionate influence in primary elections.

Age Time Influence Perfect Become

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