Carl Andre Quotes
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I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.
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I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
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I believe politicians should always remain realistic.
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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I've always been a huge reggae fan.
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You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
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Nice girls aren't always what they seem.
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I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.
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I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.
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I don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids.
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My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.
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Unlike straight men, who have the luxury of being slobs because women usually expect them to be, gay men - whether preppies, fashion victims, or jocks - are thought to be more obsessed with how they look because they dress for themselves and, consequently, for each other.
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We did some research that showed that the very first word of your message that you send a girl - when we looked at men sending messages to women - the very first word can have a tremendous... can have a very accurate prediction of whether you're going to get a reply.
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Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
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As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.
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Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.
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The disconnected impressions which we derive from life form a kind of knowledge ‘in growth,’ as Bacon called it; an over-early and peremptory attempt to digest this knowledge into a system tends, as he suggests, to falsify and distort it.
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My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.
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I lived in San Jose for a little bit, and one of my neighbors was Vietnamese and was teasing me. I said "I've had pho," and then he goes, "Oh, what do you get, the number one big bowl?" I was like, "Come on, man. You don't have to come at me like that." But yeah, I've tried tendon. Tendon eventually yields.
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And I am standing in front of my mother, and my whole life I have wanted to make my mother proud. And now I'm going to make my daughter proud.
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I'm a feminist. I've always been in favor of women.
