Fay Weldon Quotes
I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?
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I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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No matter where I travel, I make sure to carry a Vaseline body lotion with me to keep my skin well moisturised all the time.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
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There are too many 50-year-olds dressing as 20-year-olds.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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Cyder was anciently the main drink of the country people in the West of England.
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I'm lucky because I remember my dad showing me 'Independence Day,' and I loved it.
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I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.
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When I was young, I had an 'aha' moment in church. There was a thing called testimony service, and somebody would sing a song, and everyone else would join in, finding a note where they fit. During one of those, a light went on in my head. In that moment, I heard everything - Parliament, the Staple Singers, Curtis Mayfield, Prince - in there.
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I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.
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Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.
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The project of Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' is exactly that: to assert the beautiful, bountiful, chaotic complexity of one black American male. And, by extension, all black American males.
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I was under 18, and to leave Kenya to come to the United States, to get a passport, you had to be 18. So I lied and said I was 19 to get the passport, because otherwise, I had to have permission from my parents, and my parents would never have let me come.
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With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.
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Eclectic yet classic with a playful bohemian twist is how I'd describe my style.
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Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.
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Sioux was always a horse culture, especially the Lakota Sioux. My mom is from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation; my dad is from a Sioux Indian reservation. Both tribes are Lakota.
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People wonder why first-time directors can make a brilliant picture, then suck on the second one. It's because they're a little terrified the first time. So they listen to all the experts around them.
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I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?
