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Gail Kelly Quotes

When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I'm going to make a difference and lead by example and actively put in place policies and practices to support women.'

Gail Kelly

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businesswoman
Nationality: south african
Birth: April 25, 1956

Topics

Women Support Make A Difference Place

I had a wonderful time making 'Dark Shadows.'

Joanna Going

Time Dark Shadows Wonderful Making

My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.

Jerry Saltz

Mother Art Me Chicago Never Month

So many women have had to make these sacrifices - putting off having kids, letting their husbands down - for some career opportunity. Mine just happened to be covering the woman trying to become the first woman president.

Amy Chozick

Women Opportunity Woman Career Down

I don't think that we are completely dominated by what we have inherited from the past, but it is the case that as far back as you can go - just to Homer, but also to the literature of Rome, the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance - what you will find is that women's voices are not taken seriously.

Mary Beard

Women Past Think Literature You Go

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

Mary Oliver

Love Think Feelings Duty Line Own

If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have big problems with the actors because you will ask them to tell a story that you don't know.

Michel Hazanavicius

Story Problems You Know Silent Try

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

Michael Pollan

Poverty Obesity Between Agricultural

Man, the '80s were pretty wacky. You had some stuff that was just so rad and some stuff that was just so wrong.

Lucas Till

Man You Wrong Pretty Wacky Stuff

In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some identity in a world of people whose identities seemed to come effortlessly.

Jonathan Safran Foer

School Effort Identity People World

I don't want to talk about myself, that's for other people to say, so I'm not saying I was so talented.

Jon Lovitz

Myself People Saying Say Want Talk

I love the fact that people can relate to what I'm saying, even if it's not for the same subject I was writing about. That is the power of real music and real expression.

Corey Taylor

Love Music Power People Writing

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.

Bruce Springsteen

Live Past People Band Over Rising