Janet Mock Quotes
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.
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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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Stoller is one of my favorite comedic directors - one of my favorite directors that I've worked with to date.
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The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason.
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If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.
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There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
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Women are so policed and devalued and dehumanized when it comes to the work they do.
