Joanna Russ Quotes
The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.
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Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.
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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.
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The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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You have to follow that next step.
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I followed lectures on the history, geography, economy and political organization of Sweden.
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Sex stops when you pull up your pants, Love never lets you go.
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I'm in charge of a lot of young women. They occasionally come to me for advice, and I have to wrangle them.
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How shall we get foreigners to respect our women when we ourselves set the example of offending them? Can we Filipino men expect to be respected when our women are not?
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I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.
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The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.
