Molly Ringwald Quotes
Not all women write the same. But I don't understand why the model is that you're supposed to write like a man, and that means you're a real writer.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.
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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
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I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.
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The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
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Our country has often stood like a solid rock in the face of common danger, and there is a deep underlying unity which runs like a golden thread through all our seeming diversity.
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The first songs I learned was 'Crazy' by Patsy Cline and 'At Last' by Etta James. I had been growing up with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, great bands.
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It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.
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I like to do one thing at a time and do it to the best of my ability.
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As a kid, there was a painting of 'Appeal to the Great Spirit' that I would see when I would get oatmeal bowls out of the cupboard. This painting, it was so real to me that it frightened me.
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And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air.
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I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.
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I don't know how much I believe in redemptive stories, even though people want them and strive for them.
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Water is the foundation for our economies, communities, ecosystems, and quality of life.
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I love Gwen Stefani. I'd watch what she'd wear over and over again and think, 'How do I nail this style?' And then, I like that classic beauty, too. Audrey Hepburn, she's so elegant.
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My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware the beauty is summoning him.
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The Widelux is a fickle mistress; its viewfinder isn't accurate, and there's no manual focus, so it has an arbitrariness to it, a capricious quality. I like that.
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For a date night with my girlfriend, we go to Zuma for Japanese.
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When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from 'Sleeping Beauty'-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven, very different, I decided - and indeed it is.
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I think there was a sense that the impact was being lost because the audience was so familiar with the form. You combine that with people's attention spans, which are clearly conditioned to be shorter now, and there's a need to vary the paradigm.
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The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to people who have never really had to grow up.
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Not all women write the same. But I don't understand why the model is that you're supposed to write like a man, and that means you're a real writer.
