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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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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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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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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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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To see you naked is to recall the Earth.
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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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One thing I think celebrities shy away from is exposing the reality that we're all the same. Somebody's not more important because they have a Bentley or a big house or a famous boyfriend or plastic surgery - we're all the same.
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I spent a lot of time with the LAPD. I spent six weeks training, weapons training, ride-alongs, surveillance, interviewing them, in all different departments and divisions.
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Helping men express feelings starts with understanding why men don’t express them.
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Yes. I'm a doctor, an epidemiologist, and lots of my professional colleagues flip back and forth between industry and medical roles. I know them; they are not bad people. But it is possible for good people in bad systems to do things that inflict enormous harm.
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If Judd Apatow called me, I'd do it without thinking about it. I think he does really fun movies.
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Sexism goes so deep that at first it's hard to see; you think it's just reality.
