Molly Parker Quotes

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

Molly Parker

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• I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing.

  

  O. Winston Link
  • Strong
  • Doing
  • Healthy

• I see the Calvin Klein girl as strong, fun, and confident.

  

  Hanneli Mustaparta
  • Fun
  • Girl
  • Strong

• I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl power femme fatale thing. It's fun, and it's unapologetic, and they tell women they can do whatever they want, and that's true, and that's a message that I want to carry, to tell girls they can do whatever they want.

  

  T. J. Miller
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  • Power
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• Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Strong
  • Woman
  • Strong Woman

• There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Culture

• Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.

  

  Jack Welch
  • World
  • Job
  • True

• What's really important? That I'm an individual, I guess. I am an individual - a strong one, too. I'm Natalie Cole. I gotta be me.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Individual

• A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Life
  • Up
  • Strong

• The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Mum says that, since I was a tiny baby, I've had the most strong-willed and stubborn personality known to man. Although that was a real pain for her, she admired my resolve.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Real
  • She
  • Man

• As I've gotten older, I've realized my true models are my parents. My mom is like a sheroe. My dad is so strong.

  

  Zendaya
  • True
  • Parents
  • Strong

• I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about disability.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • People
  • Strong
  • Disability

• I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in it. The military draft was in place, I was summoned for a physical exam, and I was either going to be classified as fit for military service or make my objection to it. So I made my objection to it.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • War
  • Strong
  • Feeling

• The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers - stern and wild ones, - and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Solitude

• 'Now, boy, now...' he said bewilderedly, 'what is all this talk of glory? Have you caught the sickness, too? Curse me for a blind beggar, I should have seen. This fever has cankered even your simple heart, hasn’t it, Simon? I’m sorry. It takes a strong will or practiced eye to see through the glitter to the rotten core.'

  

  Tad Williams
  • Heart
  • Strong
  • Simple

• It is a strong castle, and strongly guarded; but there is no impossibility to brave men.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Men
  • Strong
  • Brave

• I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.

  

  Joan Allen
  • People
  • Good
  • Women

• Loving movies myself, I know when I see a film with someone with a strong persona, it's hard to overlay another character on top of that.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Character
  • Strong

• Outstanding beauty, like outstanding gifts of any kind, tends to get in the way of normal emotional development, and thus of that particular success in life which we call happiness.

  

  Milton Sapirstein
  • Success
  • Development
  • Outstanding

• As a boy soprano in the high school choir, I later sang a solo during the carol service at Canterbury Cathedral, but I was too young to secure the Freddy Eynsford-Hill role in our production of 'My Fair Lady' - and far too timid to have thought to audition for it.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • School
  • High
  • Boy

• Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Trump

• There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • American
  • History

• I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.

  

  Jennifer Ellison
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Sister

• I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

  

  Molly Parker
  • Strong
  • Conscious
  • Complexes