Fay Weldon Quotes
The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself…They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be; they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them.
Quotes to Explore
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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Coming to another hockey Mecca like Toronto makes you a better coach. I want to have fun again. I want to make it fun for everybody, and it's fun when you win.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
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I want to make a name for myself.
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The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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I enjoy my life.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.
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When I was first asked to be on 'Washington Week', I never prepared more for an appearance.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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Low-wage jobs have gone offshore. We need to innovate to stay competitive.
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Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
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The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself…They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be; they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them.
