Rachel Holmes Quotes
One of the key things about the entitlement and power of patriarchy, but also within feminism, is not that it's wilful nastiness. But you can't ask for permission. You can negotiate and you can bring people on board and you can build a base but you can't expect for it to be given.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'
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I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
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I trip over my legs all the time. I'll wave to somebody, look up, and end up eating pavement.
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If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.
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Defending is mostly about focus.
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Faced with the Divine, people took refuge in the banal, as though answering a cosmic multiple-choice question: If you saw a burning bush, would you (a) call 911, (b) get the hot dogs, or (c) recognize God? A vanishingly small number of people would recognize God, Anne had decided years before, and most of them had simply missed a dose of Thorazine.
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One of the key things about the entitlement and power of patriarchy, but also within feminism, is not that it's wilful nastiness. But you can't ask for permission. You can negotiate and you can bring people on board and you can build a base but you can't expect for it to be given.
