Maggie Nelson Quotes
Not to be too doctrinaire, but we live in the patriarchy! And therefore anything explicitly associated with the female gender, including motherhood, needs to be defensively claimed, because it's either devalued or sentimentally idealized, but not supported. I so thoroughly believe that female human beings have worth that I don't feel the need to argue it, but I think that there's a part of me that very specifically wants to make space for those ideas to be centralized, if only for the moment.
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The American dream is about freedom.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
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Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
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I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.
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Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.
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I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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That house with its remoteness and the islands going down like soft gongs all the time into the amazing blue, and I shall never,never ever forget a youth spent there, discovered by accident. It was pure gold. But then of course ...youth does mean happiness, it does mean love, and that's something you can't get over.
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Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.
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There really is a sense of internationalism in the heartland.
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I don't know if this is a stumbling block, but I had a real setback when I won a Nebula Award for the first story I ever had nominated for a Nebula in 1982. And you might think that was a good thing - and it was a wonderful thing, I don't regret it a bit. But I was sort of discombobulated by it.
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I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
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Not to be too doctrinaire, but we live in the patriarchy! And therefore anything explicitly associated with the female gender, including motherhood, needs to be defensively claimed, because it's either devalued or sentimentally idealized, but not supported. I so thoroughly believe that female human beings have worth that I don't feel the need to argue it, but I think that there's a part of me that very specifically wants to make space for those ideas to be centralized, if only for the moment.
