Dorothy Dunnett Quotes
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Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.
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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
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Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.
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But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.
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I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.
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My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.
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I'm attracted to mysterious men. Every woman can relate to that, right?
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I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.
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Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.
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Men view life to be as precious as women do, and to say that men have a more violent nature is insulting to men.
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Men are separated by so many petty things.
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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
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I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.
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At home in South Africa I have sometimes said in big meetings where you have black and white together: 'Raise your hands!' Then I have said: 'Move your hands,' and I've said 'Look at your hands - different colors representing different people. You are the Rainbow People of God.'
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Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
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Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.
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Fools make news, and wise men carry it.
