Solon Quotes
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Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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It wasn't really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the place of baseball, which was my love when I was five years old. I don't know what happened; baseball just got boring to me, I guess.
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The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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I love working in New York.
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I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.
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I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.
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If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'
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Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
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I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit slack. But, I am weight-conscious, so I concentrate on avoiding junk food.
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Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.
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Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.
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Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.
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I think of setting as almost a character of its own, influencing the other characters in ways they're not even aware of. So much of the success of a good ghost story rides on creating a creepy atmosphere; details of the landscape itself can help create a sense of dread.
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Because I'm a woman, because I'm a character actress, because I'm over 40, I'll be very interested to see, not just for me but for other actresses, how Hollywood treats us in the next ten, fifteen years. I'm hoping that it's not going to be so easy to shove people under the rug, as they have in the past.
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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
