Wendy E. Long (Wendy Elizabeth Long) Quotes
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I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.
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When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.
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I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
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I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.
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The attractive lady whom I had only recently been introduced to dropped into my lap... I chose not to dump her off.
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I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.
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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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Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
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I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.
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I'd rather be doing something than not doing something.
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Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.
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On the whole, I'd rather be in Philidelphia.
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'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?
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I think we all remember Emma Peel from 'The Avengers,' the feminist icon that she was in the late '60s.
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I'd much rather wear out than rust out.
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San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening.
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If Lady Gaga is like an orange Bugatti Veyron, then I am like a black 1970 Chevelle.
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I know a lot of women who embody what it means to be a feminist but do not want to use that word. The misperceptions about what it's all about have gotten into their heads.
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As a feminist, just to speak to what women go through, I think women are put in a box way too often. What I love about 'You're the Worst' is that no female character is portrayed as a black-and-white cartoon character. We're all complicated, messy human beings.
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I want to treat people the way I like to be treated and be very straight with them.
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Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
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I would say that kids are great in many ways, because I think that we are less hampered when it comes to 'this costs too much' or 'that's impossible'.
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The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957.
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I'd rather be a lady of the evening than a feminist.
