Gail Carriger Quotes
I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. I can spend hours researching any such amazing lady, from Ching Shih to Hatshepsut to Boudica to Zenobia.
Quotes to Explore
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The world is always in movement.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
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I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
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Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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I go for long walks in Newlands Forest in Cape Town, and I go to the Turkish baths on Sunday mornings.
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My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.
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Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.
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The thing I miss about L.A. is time. I feel like I had much more time there, partly because no one is ever really doing anything.
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I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.
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I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. I can spend hours researching any such amazing lady, from Ching Shih to Hatshepsut to Boudica to Zenobia.
