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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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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Bottom line: I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
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You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.
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Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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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.
