G. Willow Wilson Quotes
The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she made it easy for me.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.
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I think glamour is synonymous with me.
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What bitcoin does better than the current financial system is it's a better stored value globally. There are a lot of countries that really don't trust their banks or their currency, and bitcoin is an alternative.
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You start noticing that people are noticing how you look, and it is a profoundly alienating experience when it first happens, where you go on TV and you say something about some topic of the day, and on the Internet people are like, 'What was up with that shirt?' 'What was up with your hair?' And you think, 'Oh, that's kind of a bummer.'
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The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me.
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There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
