Alix Kates Shulman Quotes

Sexism goes so deep that at first it's hard to see; you think it's just reality.

Alix Kates Shulman

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• In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Reality
  • Giving

• I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Want
  • See
  • News

• At times, the curve/fat/plus convo tends be this 'out of the dark' story, like, 'I used to be insecure, but now here I am.' But that is not my reality, and for most of the people, that isn't their reality, either.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Reality
  • Story

• Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Funny
  • See
  • Others

• Reality is what you can count on.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Reality
  • You
  • Count

• A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • People
  • Reality
  • Author

• It's nice to see more of those meaty female characters emerging because so often in the industry, it's always about the males.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Nice
  • Always
  • See

• Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Family
  • Reality
  • Difference

• People always say to me, 'You've really strived to redefine retail.' But the reality is, I wanted to redefine magazines.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Reality
  • Always

• Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.

  

  Ian Hart
  • See
  • Secret
  • Missing

• A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Together
  • Dream
  • Reality

• I hope the English-speaking world can see that I'm not only an Israeli actress.

  

  Hani Furstenberg
  • World
  • Hope
  • English

• Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • See

• I'm a big fan of films that I grew up on and would watch obsessively, over and over again. If I didn't feel like I got everything on the first watch good, I want to see it again immediately.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Good
  • Want

• I don't think we're going to see the price of oil going down in the near future, that's the reality.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Future
  • Think
  • Reality

• The reality is that no one can be forced to join a union against their will, and a union cannot take action against those who decide not to join their union.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Reality
  • Action
  • Take

• You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• I never experienced much outright anti-Semitism. While we learned about the Holocaust - endlessly, it felt like - no spray-painted swastika ever appeared on my childhood landscape. Jewish persecution was an ever-looming reality, but always an abstract one.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Reality
  • Childhood
  • Holocaust

• For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially if he be, in addition, a diplomat or financier in contact with the 'realities' of the present day, is only too ready to believe literature is an intellectual game which is destined to gradually be abandoned as time goes on.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Reality
  • Literature
  • Artistic

• I started doing repertory theatre in upstate New York when I was 15, went back when I was 16, and by that time decided that I really wanted to study drama seriously and go to an acting conservatory called Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • Time
  • Study
  • Drama

• Partisanship is not necessarily a bad thing. It leads to new leadership and new opportunities.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Bad
  • Leadership
  • Opportunities

• YouTube offers the best solution by running an ad before showing the video, but also offering a 'skip ad' button that you can click after five seconds to go directly to the video if you are not interested in the ad. Now, that's what I call consumer sovereignty!

  

  Mark Skousen
  • Running

• Sexism goes so deep that at first it's hard to see; you think it's just reality.

  

  Alix Kates Shulman
  • Reality
  • See
  • Sexism