Janet Mock Quotes
When marginalized people gain voice and center their own experiences, things begin changing. And we see this in all kinds of grassroots movements.
Quotes to Explore
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
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Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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Women just love to shop.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I've to take time out to work on my albums because I'm passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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How can I convert the enthusiasm of voters into a practical programme of action that meets their desire for economic security and greater prosperity?
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I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.
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I think about 'The Hurt Locker,' and we made a film about three guys, three different looking guys with three very different energies.
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The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind. The picture dictates the arrangement. The picture dictates whether this will be a sentence with or without clauses, a sentence that ends hard or a dying-fall sentence, long or short, active or passive.
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If you can cultivate wholesome mental states prior to sleep and allow them to continue right into sleep without getting distracted, then sleep itself becomes wholesome.
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We're always looking for ways to extend all of our intellectual property. We've seen that's what happened with 'Harry Potter' and 'The Lord of the Rings.'
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about 'TV golfers' who try to help other people out
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When marginalized people gain voice and center their own experiences, things begin changing. And we see this in all kinds of grassroots movements.
