Nicole Holofcener Quotes
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I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.
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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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We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.
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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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As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.
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I'm a person who's always been interested in politics and thought it was a very noble occupation.
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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.
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I think that a leader is someone that needs to make an impact on, off the cricket field and in their lives as well.
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I don't think of myself in a political way, though I am definitely a feminist.
