Gail Collins Quotes

When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.

Gail Collins

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WomenFutureVisionHairMakeup

I'm not as worried about the process of writing, simply because I think I've got that one down, you know? I think I know what brings specificity to these ideas, what brings specificity to the genre elements, or anything else, and it's personal emotions.

Jeff Nichols

IdeasWritingThinkProcessYou

Presidents get to decide how their intelligence is served up to them, and it's the job of intelligence to adjust.

Michael Hayden

JobIntelligenceDecideAdjustUp

I'm studying Krav Maga, which is an Israeli form of self defense. It's very deadly and without rules.

Rupert Friend

SelfRulesStudyingWithoutDefense

A rough beginning doesn't have to mean there is a rough end.

Jon Jones

BeginningEndMeanRough

The reason socialism has failed around the world every time it's been tried is because people in socialist countries have looked at the United States and have said if they can have it that good, we can. It's a failed, flawed ideology, but if you ask socialists why it's always failed, it's because the United States has stood in the way.

Brad Thor

GoodTimePeopleWorldSocialism

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

Antonio Banderas

PersonBelongWhoEvenCharacters

The leading character isn't always the most important or interesting character; when people think that the protagonist is the character portrayed, it's people who haven't read Shakespeare.

Pilou Asbaek

CharacterPeopleThinkInteresting

The girls in my books are out solving their own problems.

Phyllis A. Whitney

ProblemsOutOwnBooksSolving

Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly empire. And he knows that without righteous mothers loving and leading the next generation, the Kingdom of God will fail.

Sheri L. Dew

GodWarMotherhoodGenerationLoving

In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts.

Sharon Gless

TalentMeMentorEarlySheHead

When I was nine, ten, I was super young, but I installed a program on my computer so I could start producing music. I just started messing around. Then, after a couple of years, I got better. I actually learned some tricks, so I knew what I was doing instead of just messing.

Martin Garrix

MusicStartBetterDoingYoungJust

I always intended to move back to New York when I was first there.

Martin Henderson

New YorkBackNewFirstAlwaysMove

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