Debra Winger Quotes
I want to start a trend of women as we really look. Some good things, some not so good. I am tired of looking at frozen faces.
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Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There's a thread running down the Fugard line of alcoholism. Thankfully I haven't passed it on to my child, a wonderful daughter who's stone-cold sober. But I had the tendency from my father, just as he had had it from his father.
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I like being a boss.
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By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg or Steven Soderbergh or any number of directors were to say 'Hey, there's this role, are you interested?' I'd be there in a flash.
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Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.
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I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.
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I want to start a trend of women as we really look. Some good things, some not so good. I am tired of looking at frozen faces.
