Madeleine M. Kunin Quotes

Most female CEOs have been more understanding than their male counterparts, of the stress that new mothers experience to 'do it all,' which often means, 'all by themselves.' Why? They've been there. They understand the policies needed to keep women in the workforce.

Madeleine M. Kunin

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That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.

Jesmyn Ward

PeopleFindWantWhyWillWrite

I have a lot of favorite films. I tend to love the silliness of 'Bringing Up Baby.' 'Charade' is fantastic. 'His Girl Friday,' the banter in that, that alone made me want to be a writer.

Jennifer Grant

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I've always been slightly embittered about computers because it was the only subject I failed at school.

Matt Frewer

SchoolComputersAlwaysBecauseBeen

People from Chandigarh are so warm and kind.

Anita Hassanandani Reddy

PeopleWarmKind

I wrote a novel in my early twenties; I won a high school prize - my short story got published, and I got 50 dollars, which was a huge deal.

Sue Miller

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Wrigley Field was built and designed at a time when people got to the ballpark by trolley, train, and horse cart.

Mike Quigley

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Comedy can always be taken the wrong way. If I do a bit that is meant to diffuse racism or sexism, I'm not going to avoid it on the chance that a small portion of the audience might take it the wrong way.

Doug Stanhope

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Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.

Christopher Walken

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We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.

Clare Short

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I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.

Cilla Black

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Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

Augustus Hare

PeopleWillFollowThingsExcellent

As fears about the energy and environmental crises reach a fever pitch, we're all searching for solutions. And one possibility is that we could fix everything if we'd just shrink our population back down to about 2 billion people - which would put us roughly where we were at 80 years ago.

Annalee Newitz

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