Karen Bender Quotes
I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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I would be happy if they just gave out nominations and there weren't any Oscars. But winning them is definitely an experience - to get up there and make a speech. Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level.
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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I've been able to sell a number of pilots. Most have been based on my personal experience, so basically, my pitches have been like 'Sit-'n-Spin' pieces.
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I'm glad I don't have to make a living farming. Too much hard work. Too many variables you don't have control over, like, is it going to rain? All I can say is, god bless the real farmers out there.
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At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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Danish is a different language, even though Danish people understand Swedes, and very few Swedes understand Danish.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
