Betty Friedan Quotes
Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
Quotes to Explore
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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It simply isn't acceptable for the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, which amass data by the terabyte, to say, 'Don't worry, your information's safe with us, as all sorts of rules protect you' - when all evidence suggests otherwise.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
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I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
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Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite.
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If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.
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A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke.
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I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to 'New Kids on the Block.'
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She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part of her life was made from the tree growing rankly in the yard. She was the bitter quarrels she had with her brother whom she loved dearly. She was Katie's secret, despairing weeping. She was the shame of her father stumbling home drunk. She was all of these things and of something more...It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life - the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike.
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Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
