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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There are many reasons why the general public doesn't really understand our monetary system. In the first place, money is something that people tend to get emotional about. After all, money involves, and always has involved, something closely akin to faith-which probably explains why in many past societies the money system has been in the hands of a priesthood, the subject of magical rites, and the ceremonial services of the tribe's medicine man.
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But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public.
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The perfect date is the one where anything and everything goes wrong, but at the end of it, all you want is to see them again.
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Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The whole world thinks that this city is the most beautiful place on earth.
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I'd rather be a lady of the evening than a feminist.
