Alix Kates Shulman Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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Reality is what you can count on.
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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.
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It's nice to see more of those meaty female characters emerging because so often in the industry, it's always about the males.
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I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.
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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.
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People always say to me, 'You've really strived to redefine retail.' But the reality is, I wanted to redefine magazines.
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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.
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A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
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I hope the English-speaking world can see that I'm not only an Israeli actress.
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Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.
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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.
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I don't think we're going to see the price of oil going down in the near future, that's the reality.
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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.
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You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
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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.
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To become mindfully aware of our surroundings is to bring our thinking back to our present moment reality and to the possibility of some semblance of serenity in the face of circumstances outside our ability to control.
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Writing does produce a very unique satisfaction. There are times when I'm writing that it's frustrating or appalling or difficult, but when it goes well, it goes really well, and there is a feeling of rightness, like I'm doing the thing I was meant to do, almost in a mystical way, like I'm at an appropriate angle to the world.
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In the morning, I reach for the sports page.
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I like to get my hands dirty. Talk is cheap.
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Sexism goes so deep that at first it's hard to see; you think it's just reality.
