Chelsea Hobbs Quotes
The pressure to keep up with what society tells us is perfect is causing us to enter a time when women are no longer women, but plastic shells of what women used to be.
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Great men marry great women.
Ilyasah Shabazz
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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
Octavio Paz
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When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.
Nawal El Saadawi
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The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.
Zygmunt Bauman
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As a child growing up, it's going to be what you're going to remember most. What you liked or not liked then is going to define who you are at the table!
Daniel Boulud
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Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.
Adam Cohen
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I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
Ian Somerhalder
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Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
Gaby Hoffmann
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My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just the way she handled certain things, she was... not soft-spoken but smooth-spoken. Just very calm, cool, collected about things.
Queen Latifah
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I pick up on other people's discomfort.
Carice van Houten
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There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.
Iman
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What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
Walter F. Mondale
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde
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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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There are so many young women in film school right now, and it's just about foreign sales companies, domestic sales companies agreeing to finance films directed by and starring women.
Olivia Wilde
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When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.
Carlisle Floyd
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Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously.
Uwe Boll
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What is this thing between women, like men are a joke that women all told each other long ago but men never get it.
Orson Scott Card
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There should be characters and situations that we cannot identify with, that retain either too much horror or too much wonder to allow for simple identification. That feels to me like an accurate depiction of what it is like to be in the world, rather than a neutered register of continual empathy.
Katie Kitamura
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I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.
Fiona Apple
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Why am I such a Euro-enthusiast? Because I knew it was an anchor of democracy.
Adam Michnik
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The pressure to keep up with what society tells us is perfect is causing us to enter a time when women are no longer women, but plastic shells of what women used to be.
Chelsea Hobbs