Elizabeth Marvel Quotes
I get to play a lot of powerful, smartest women in the room. And that's deeply satisfying.
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Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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It can be frustrating when you're put in a category with others. Women do get lumped together in this reductive grouping, and you think, 'Gosh, that rarely happens with the boys.' I'm sure people don't say to Eddie Redmayne, 'How do you feel about Andrew Garfield?'
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I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
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In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
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When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.
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The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.
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I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.
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The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.
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There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women's stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.
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Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
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I'm really proud of 'Oceans 12.' Of course, you do an 'Oceans' movie, you get known all over the world. It's an incredibly powerful medium: It's a Hollywood-identified blockbuster.
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I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.
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A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
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Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.
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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.
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Liberals have invented whole college majors - psychology, sociology and women's studies - to prove that nothing is anybody's fault.
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It would be nice if models were allowed to be a more healthy weight - for the models, and for the young women who look up to them. We were athletic and healthy, and we looked like women.
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Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.
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As soon as you become of interest to the media, the charity requests start rolling in, and it's not easy saying no. But if you endorse every charity that asks you, you're not really endorsing any of them. It has to mean something.
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That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles that are repressive, or women who are slightly repressed or having some kind of internal conflict.
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The Chinese novel was written primarily to amuse the common people. And when I say amuse I do not mean only to make them laugh, though laughter is also one of the aims of the Chinese novel. I mean amusement in the sense of absorbing and occupying the whole attention of the mind. I mean enlightening that mind by pictures of life and what that life means.
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I get to play a lot of powerful, smartest women in the room. And that's deeply satisfying.
