Nicole Holofcener Quotes
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
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Life doesn't stop with football.
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One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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I think I'm as good if not better than everyone else.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.
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In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.
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Everyone should be good at what they do.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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To make war, you had to be filled with love, with a vehement passion, exalted, intoxicated, otherwise the whole thing was inhuman and absurd.
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I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.
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There are people with an explicit political bent complaining about people having political agendas while nominating stories with political agendas. Is it political to try to be diverse? Is it political to try to imagine a non-heteronormative society? Yes, because it involves politics. But how do they expect us to not write about our lives?
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Throughout the world, the family is increasingly under attack. If families fail, many of our political, economic, and social systems will also fail.
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I don't think of myself in a political way, though I am definitely a feminist.
