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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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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Mathematics, in the development of its ideas, has only to take account of the immanent reality of its concepts and has absolutely no obligation to examine their transient reality.
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If I could chat with anyone, it would be Claire Messud, because I think she could tell me how to get better as a writer as I age.
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I agree with that in principle. Where would you stick the knife in?
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We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
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When Ray calls, I always ask him, 'What is it you want to buy?'
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Sexism goes so deep that at first it's hard to see; you think it's just reality.
