Xaviera Hollander Quotes

A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification.

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• For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it's hard to do. It's easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Working
  • Luck
  • Miracle

• It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Important
  • Needs
  • Story

• Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Time
  • Government
  • Better

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Doing

• Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Help
  • Culture
  • Wait

• To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Journey

• There are going to be good days and bad days... and you have to learn to fight through that.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Learn

• Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Genius
  • Tribute
  • Ridicule

• When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Want
  • You
  • Realize

• Saying you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's awesome, and it's out of your control, and it's not a career path.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Up
  • Career
  • Control

• It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Said
  • Bankruptcy

• Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Men
  • Women
  • Movie

• It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy would not get it through his head that for all adults God is not an old man in a white beard sitting on a cloud. As far as this boy was concerned, this old gentleman was the adult's god, and therefore he did not believe in God.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • God
  • Believe
  • Boy

• 'It is hard to be brave,' said Piglet, sniffing slightly, 'when you're only a Very Small Animal.'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Small
  • Animal
  • Brave

• Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are deceptive and treacherous. Wherefore one must hold fast to facts in generalizations also, and occupy oneself with facts persistently, if one is to acquire that ready and infallible habit which we call 'the art of medicine.'

  

  Hippocrates
  • Art
  • Habit
  • Affirmation

• The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Mind
  • May
  • Hand

• Man is not above nature, but in nature.

  

  Ernst Haeckel
  • Nature
  • Man

• Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Romantic
  • Hard
  • Comedies

• Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.

  

  Dwight L. Moody

• A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification.

  

  Xaviera Hollander