Caitlin Moran Quotes
We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.
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I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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I went to Briar Cliff College initially, and then I transferred to Georgetown University, because I was a Russian major, and I was one of two girls accepted that year. This was September 1969 - well, that would have been 1970 - into the School Of Languages And Linguistics in Georgetown.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.
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I had an Indiana Jones fedora that I loved. I don't know what happened to it. I don't know where it went. Wish I had it back. Whoever's got it, you suck.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
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It is easy to bare your body, but it is difficult to bare your soul. What works for me is that I am not a city-raised boy with city-raised sensibilities. I can play the vulnerable tough man, the guy with a gun in his hand, tears in his eyes, fire in his heart, innocence in him, and in his arms a woman he loves.
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I went to a lot of college camps when I was younger... You just admire those players because they're at a higher level than you at that time.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. When I got to Italy, the first thing I did was put my little basil plants in the ground and watch them turn into big, healthy bushes.
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We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
