Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes
In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Of course I get hurt.
Jackie Chan -
There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
Rachel Bloom -
I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
Hal Sutton -
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips -
Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
J. M. G. Le Clezio -
Today, the scope for variety has shrunk drastically. There are only a handful of topnotch composers like A. R. Rahman, Anu Malik, Jatin-Lalit... that's it.
Lata Mangeshkar
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
Salman Khurshid -
I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
Mahesh Babu -
We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
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.
Karan Mahajan -
I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
Nathan Lane
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
Victoria Pendleton -
A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
Harold Pinter -
Political correctness kills discussion.
Lars von Trier -
Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
Maajid Nawaz -
I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
Harbhajan Singh
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That's the Indian in me - you must put spices on everything. As a kid, whenever we got sick, my mom would take milk and put turmeric in it. That was our medicine. That was the cure-all. Some people turn to Robitussin.
Aasif Mandvi -
Mere abuse is no criticism.
P. G. Wodehouse -
Every apartment I've ever lived in has had a space to make, create, and get stuff done within eyesight of my bed.
Joe Gebbia -
Real love isn't ever ambivalent.
Tony Kushner -
Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women.
Anne M. Mulcahy -
In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.
Elizabeth Wurtzel