Deborah K. Ross Quotes
Flag-burning is plain wrong, and I'll stand up for free speech - even speech I don't like.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.
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When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we'll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
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I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn't remember much about it apart from a few characters.
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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
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The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.
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John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it.
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Flag-burning is plain wrong, and I'll stand up for free speech - even speech I don't like.
