Nicole Kidman (Nicole Mary Kidman) Quotes
I look for roles that show women as independent, informed, and free to make their own decisions.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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I was raised by women. Now I'm raising women. I was always better around girls. I live in an all-female household. I even have two female dogs... It's funny how that turned out.
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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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I'm one of the best condensers in the business.
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It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
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I think lots of men are like that. We sort of get dressed by our girlfriends.
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I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
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I watched the Disney Channel all the time growing up. 'Lizzie McGuire' was my all-time favorite. I'm pretty sure I had every piece of merchandise that involved Lizzie. And I loved 'That's So Raven.'
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People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It's a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first.
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You know, Californians care about protecting their environment. So do I. But they also care about that in the context of a healthy economy.
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I'm obsessed with being human.
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I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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I think women can tell the most profound and interesting and fascinating stories.
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Some people today claim that cultures rooted in oral tradition are far more careful to make certain that traditions that are told and retold are not changed significantly. This turns out to be a modern myth, however. Anthropologists who have studied oral cultures show that just the opposite is the case. Only literary cultures have a concern for exact replication of the facts “as they really are.” And this is because in literary cultures, it is possible to check the sources to see whether someone has changed a story. In oral cultures, it is widely expected that stories will indeed change—they change anytime a storyteller is telling a story in a new context. New contexts require new ways of telling stories. Thus, oral cultures historically have seen no problem with altering accounts as they were told and retold.
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In zombie horror, the juxtaposition of the calm world of the living and the menace of the undead inspires terror. In zombie comedy, like 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' it is played for laughs.
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The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to bear it. It is the sediment, not the wave, of a sex. It is the antithesis of that highest and sweetest mystery - conviction by submission, and conquest by sacrifice.
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I look for roles that show women as independent, informed, and free to make their own decisions.
