Alana de la Garza Quotes
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In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotional tracks. There was one moment where a woman I was interviewing just sort of burst into tears, and I can usually sort of tell when things are coming on, and in that moment, it was very unexpected.
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I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.
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Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.
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I want to make shoes that a woman can walk in. That's kind of what they're made for.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.
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For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.
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I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.
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If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.
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I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.
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In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.
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I think it's clear that Planned Parenthood has worked to mislead the public about who they are... they do not provide mammograms. They are the middleman, or middle woman, if you will.
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I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.
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I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.
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I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.
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The woman I'm attracted to won't be based on what I write down on paper. It's going to be what I feel.
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There's the instability of my attitude as an artist, the instability of our perception of the world, and the idea that with this mix, you never know exactly what's the point of view of the filmmaker. This breaks the stability of the belief that a filmmaker is somebody who has a logical relationship with his own material. These elements create this atmosphere that I find more interesting than a normal atmosphere, based only on the characters.
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Go West, young man.
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In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.
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'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about.
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There's a part of every woman that wants to be some wild seductress or superhero.
