Betty Gilpin Quotes

Being an actor, I've thought about being in the male gaze.

Betty Gilpin

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• Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Service
  • Leap

• Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • America
  • Politics
  • Personal

• People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Career
  • Control

• I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Football
  • Player

• The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Power
  • Smart
  • Influence

• In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Hope
  • Competitive
  • Striving

• When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • People
  • America
  • Habits

• I'm the baddest among the bad guys.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Bad
  • Guys
  • Among

• I keep everything that's private private.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Everything
  • Keep
  • Private

• I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Speak
  • Act
  • Through

• I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Politics

• Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes; blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent; blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Nature
  • Beautiful

• I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • People
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• I always worked mostly in Quebec. I never thought of the States, somehow. I don't know - I don't have blue eyes or blond hair. I thought I didn't fit with the stereotype of America.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • America
  • Eyes
  • Hair

• In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Good
  • Believe
  • America

• It would be great to be recognised for my achievements, but Sports Personality isn't about that.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Great
  • Sports
  • Personality

• Even 'Gone With the Wind' had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Cold
  • Wind
  • Gone

• Men are the Rosie-the-Riveters of parenting: They’re brought in only when needed, and considered disposable thereafter.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men

• 'The Virginian' has a very important romantic story line that you don't find in a lot of Westerns... At the heart of the story is quite a bit of pain and a sense of loss.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Important
  • Heart
  • Pain

• I made just about every mistake a person could make before God came into my heart. If some of those painful experiences can help someone avoid the same mistakes I made, then perhaps my heartache was not totally in vain.

  

  Paloma Ayana Stoecker
  • God
  • Heart
  • Help

• It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.

  

  Cathy Rigby
  • Reality
  • Fantasy
  • Separate

• If success in selling is my primary interest, I am not primarily a writer, but a salesperson. If I teach success in selling as the writer's primary objective, I am not teaching writing; I'm teaching, or pretending to teach, the production and marketing of a commodity.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Writing
  • Success
  • Marketing

• No suffering is self-caused.Nothing causes itself. If another is not self-made, How could suffering be caused by another? If suffering were caused by each, Suffering could be caused by both. Not caused by self or by other, How could suffering be uncaused?

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Suffering

• Being an actor, I've thought about being in the male gaze.

  

  Betty Gilpin