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Historically, men have a hard time getting onboard with feminism, but I think that's changing.

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• I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.

  

  Patricia Marx
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  • High
  • Girl

• If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

  

  Octavio Paz
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  • Universe
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• Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
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  • Believe
  • America

• Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.

  

  Dakota Fanning
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  • Me
  • Film

• There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
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  • Time
  • Art

• Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

  

  Caitlin Moran
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  • Human
  • Better

• Classic cable TV may have hit its peak, but it's still a huge force, and the streaming apps of many cable networks still require you to authenticate that you're a paying cable customer every time you want to use a new such TV app.

  

  Walt Mossberg
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• When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
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• It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

  

  H. G. Wells
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  • Pay
  • Reasonable

• I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down.

  

  Yancy Butler
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  • Good
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• I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

  

  B. B. King
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• Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.

  

  Isaac Hayes
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• I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

  

  Randall Jarrell
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  • Culture
  • Poetry

• I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Time
  • First
  • Sunday

• At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Men
  • Art
  • Man

• I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.

  

  Irrfan Khan
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  • Never

• In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.

  

  Gayle Gardner
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  • You
  • End

• What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all eternity. A pity I should have to give tongue at the same time, it prevents it from bleeding in peace, licking the lips.

  

  Samuel Beckett
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  • Knowledge
  • Peace

• Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• The most frustrating thing for me as a singer is that people have pinpointed me as an actress who suddenly woke up one day and decided that I wanted to sing.

  

  Marla Sokoloff
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  • Up

• When you have your heart broken wide, you are also open to things of beauty as well as things of sadness. Once people are not here physically, the spiritual remains, we still connect, we can communicate, we can give and receive love and forgiveness. There is love after someone dies.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Heart
  • Giving

• Historically, men have a hard time getting onboard with feminism, but I think that's changing.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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