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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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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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've always been into dressing nicely. My dad's really into fashion, also. We'll always go out and buy stuff. He has his own style and I have my own style, but it's a shared thing. Same thing with my grandfather; he was really into his style, so it's just sort of been passed down, I think.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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I wasn't a great debater.
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That girl is shooting over 50 percent from the floor. ... Anyone who has watched greatness has to know this girl is getting it done.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
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Going to any place that you view as more politically oppressed than your own country, there's a weird tendency to assume that the whole existence is determined minute by minute by the political reality, but of course, that's not the case for any of us.
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I don't think of myself in a political way, though I am definitely a feminist.