Jerry Saltz Quotes
John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.
Quotes to Explore
-
The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
-
I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
-
I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.
-
We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.
-
The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
-
Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.
-
I don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids.
-
A lot of people don't realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-American women. It's something to be aware of and to be cautious of.
-
I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.
-
Like most women, I have days where I feel like today I'm not leaving the house - you know days where you've got a spot on your nose or when you've just got off a flight, eaten fish and chips and feel really bloated - that one happens a lot to me.
-
I know I'm never going to be one of those size 2 actresses – that's just not me. But I do want to be the healthiest I can be, and a role model to women of all shapes and sizes.
-
Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.
-
Men view life to be as precious as women do, and to say that men have a more violent nature is insulting to men.
-
I stopped playing in Jr. events when I was 12 and played women's.
-
That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles that are repressive, or women who are slightly repressed or having some kind of internal conflict.
-
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
-
Planned Parenthood is a pretty popular organization. Way more popular than Congress! It claims that one in five women have received care from one of its clinics. And this care, despite what abortion opponents say, is excellent and not easily replaceable by 'community health centers.' Texas tried it, and thousands of women went without care.
-
I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where I was definitely in love. It's just I grew to a point where deep inside I knew that I could never truly have a relationship with a woman. I don't know if they ever suspected. It was never brought up.
-
A strange persuasion came upon me that, save for the grossness of the line, the grotesqueness of the forms, I had here before me the whole balance of human life in miniature, the whole interplay of instinct, reason, and fate in its simplest form.
-
I want to deal with the homeless situation here in Washington, D.C. I think it is a travesty that we've got men - and increasingly women - families, across the street and the in shadow of this great capital, that shows a lack of concern, not just for the capital, but for American, when we are allowing something like that to happen.
-
Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football!
-
For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.
-
The truth is that the writers who most influenced me weren't people categorized as crime writers. I'd say I learned more from John O'Hara, who isn't much read today but whose short stories I really admired, and Hemingway, who I think has lasted pretty good.
-
John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.
