Nell Freudenberger Quotes
I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.
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Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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People always say you can't do a red lip if you have red hair but I've never shied away from it. I think you can absolutely do that. It's more about hair colour and complexion.
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The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set.
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Modeling is a job. Even my mum doesn't believe that I do work hard.
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A lot of my family are redheads, but I'm a dark blonde.
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Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.
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Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.
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My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.
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It isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle.
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It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.
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Concerning the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts as your colleagues, collaborators and partners and not as spies, traitors and wayward children. You can never develop a science that way, only an orthodox church.
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How should we deal with intrusions of fiction into life, now that we have seen the historical impact that this phenomenon can have? … Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.
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Honour is the mysticism of legality.
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My experience has confirmed the wisdom of so much of what the Bible teaches.
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Our system of philosophy is itself on trial; it must stand or fall according as it is broad enough to find room for this experience as an element of life.
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‘If one approaches a problem with order and method there should be no difficulty in solving it - none whatever,’ said Pirot severely.
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All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.
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Need is not quite belief.
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For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness, like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
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By healing our internal divisions and fully accepting ourselves as we are, we learn to accept and empower our sexual core, and we learn to honor our unique expression of Masculine and Feminine gifts. We fully incarnate in our bodies, at home and at ease in a man's body or a woman's body. And we learn to love with complete abandon, as free men and women, without rules or roles or guarded hearts.
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From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.
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I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.
