Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Quotes
It is high time to declare an end to the breastfeeding dictatorship that is drowning women in guilt and worry just when they most need support: after the birth of a child.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and that they are passionate about you and believe in you. Because if they don't, then they're not going to work hard for you, and they're going to send you out on things that you don't want to do.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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I am a big music nerd.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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Drama class was one of the only areas at school I responded to.
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I'm a believer in challenging myself and overcoming challenges by doing things I've never done before.
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Michael Jackson, he used to chase relevancy all the time. He always wanted to go a little bigger and better and keep that audience. There was never a point where Michael was going to feel like, 'I've got to play the Nokia, and that's all I'm going to pull in is the Nokia.' That would not have been acceptable.
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I well remember a leading Egyptian liberal saying to me in 2003 that she did not favor free elections right then in Egypt; she favored them in a decade's time if she and others had those 10 years to organize freely.
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The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.
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It is high time to declare an end to the breastfeeding dictatorship that is drowning women in guilt and worry just when they most need support: after the birth of a child.
