Abigail Disney Quotes
I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
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I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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With Sumthin Else Music Works, I wanted to spread the love and give newcomers a chance to make it because something that really helped me were all the people who had given me an opportunity when I was putting my career together.
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Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.
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There isn't a lot of work in Australia. I think that's why everyone comes over to America to find jobs and pilots and things, because there's not enough work to justify staying there, unfortunately. Like, I wish there was. I would love to stay home and be working with my family around the corner, but the work just isn't there.
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I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.
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Did America owe something to the slaves whose labor had been stolen? ... That debt...is best discharged through memory, because the slaves are dead and their descendants...are better off as a consequence of their ancestors being hauled from Africa to America.
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I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
