Kate Millett Quotes
We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
-
Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
-
Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
-
But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
-
I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
-
When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
-
And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
-
Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
-
I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
-
For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
-
I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
-
I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
-
Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.
-
I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
-
Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
-
The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
-
I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
-
Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
-
I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting history to young people in particular.
-
As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of 'Lost Cause' emphasis on the Confederacy. I used to play Civil War soldiers with my brothers as a child, and my older brother always insisted that he got to be Lee, and I got be Grant. I never knew that Grant won until quite some time had passed.
-
Economists often get the market wrong.
-
Unless you go out and say what you stand for, other people will do it for you.
-
When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.
-
We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.
