Nancy Chodorow Quotes
"Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride."
Quotes to Explore
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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I love cycling.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.
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Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn't involve moving.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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Grandfather was an old-fashioned pharmacist who never ceased venting his resentment at the growing number of retail items the drugstore had to carry, and he would go into periods of fearful rage when the subject of chain stores was raised.
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I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.
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I went out there, and I fought Anderson Silva, and you know what? I got a big W, and that's massive for my career going forward.
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Performing live on stage is such a community, whether it's my musicians or a cast of a show that I'm in. And then when you're in the studio or on set, it's a much more solitary experience. Both can serve me at different times in my life. And when I go back and forth from one to the other, it helps me appreciate all of them much better.
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I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.
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It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.'
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The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.
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To me, cinema is not a movie or a TV screen, and it's not a seat in a building versus one in your living room. It's the art of motion pictures.
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I do boxing; I do a little jiu jitsu, which I am obsessed with.
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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
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I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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We will never make a 32-bit operating system.
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I think I need security.
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"Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride."
