Nancy Chodorow Quotes
Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
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Custody and guardianship by the parent of his child does not arise under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States and is not dependent on them.
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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You go to a technology conference or an engineering conference, there are very few women there. At the same time it's a blessing in the fact that you do get noticed. People tend to remember you as the only woman in the room 'who said that', or the only woman in the room who was an engineer.
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But there is a Pope in the breast of each of us whom is hard to silence. Long ago a lady said to me, when I asked her the composers she liked: 'Dvorak.' I said before I could stop myself: 'Dvorak!' How many times, and with what shame, I’ve remembered it. And now I like Dvorak...
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.
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Get in theater, really work your craft. Get really, really good so that when people say your name, your name is associated with quality, with integrity.
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Knightly love is blent with reverenceAs heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue.
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Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.
