Betty Gilpin Quotes
I won't name names, but sometimes a TV set can be a shame-and-fear obstacle course for an actress.
Quotes to Explore
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.
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Whatever you are doing, give it all of your attention. Prioritise what you're going to do carefully, and then be in the moment.
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The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.
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I am doing characters that have so many layers. And I am very lucky that I show a lot of variety.
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I'd been acting in Chicago since I came back after University, and I got a call from my agent saying, 'They're doing this revival of 'On a Clear Day,' and I actually auditioned when the team came through Chicago for the 'American Idiot' tour.
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The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.
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I won't name names, but sometimes a TV set can be a shame-and-fear obstacle course for an actress.
