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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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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I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.
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Black people have been fighting for basic citizenship rights since the inception of the country.
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Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.
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I think that idea of 'because I'm sexy, I'm a feminist' is kind of immature. But as long as women think being sexy is what makes them beautiful and powerful... then it will continue.
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I don't think of myself in a political way, though I am definitely a feminist.
