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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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.
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You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
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The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.
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Divorce Myths: 1. When love has gone out of a marriage, it is better to get divorced. 2. It is better for the children for the unhappy couple to divorce than to raise their children in the atmosphere of an unhappy marriage. 3. Divorce is the lesser of two evils. 4. You owe it to yourself. 5. Everyone's entitled to one mistake. 6. God led me to this divorce.
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I'd rather be a lady of the evening than a feminist.
