Alix Kates Shulman Quotes

My mirror image always had to be interpreted. And for that I sought my reflection in someone else's eyes.

Alix Kates Shulman

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• Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Different
  • Girl
  • Beauty

• That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • You
  • Humor
  • Grace

• I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Gift

• I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Wish

• Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Work
  • Love
  • Never

• I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Doing

• I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • Play
  • Church
  • Taken

• My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Teacher

• There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Today

• Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • College
  • Always
  • Acting

• You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Business

• 'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Great
  • Taken
  • Old

• Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Power
  • Lived

• I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Life
  • Day
  • My Life

• Dubai's world class physical infrastructure has already established it as a major player in terms of trade, tourism and as the leading conference and exhibition venue in this part of the world.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • World
  • Player
  • Class

• Music is the biggest tool of revolution - the best way to reach out to the youth and involve them. If you can't contribute to the world with your art, I don't see the meaning of life.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• I'm okay in my skin, you know... I'm okay with who I am.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Skin
  • Okay

• It's nice to have boundaries, because as long as we have them, we can cross them a bit, and that's what perks interest. If you have full freedom, what do you do?

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Long
  • Freedom
  • Nice

• I was born into a Turkish family that had acquired Italian citizenship. Many members of the family subsequently became British, French, Brazilian, and German, so there was a bit of everything. It was not uncommon for people in the family to speak seven languages: English, French, Ladino, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, and even Greek.

  

  Andre Aciman
  • People
  • Family
  • English

• A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Couple
  • Practice
  • Hours

• However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition.

  

  Adam Rickitt
  • Long
  • Law
  • Support

• We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Eyes
  • Progress
  • Eye

• When I walked into the house, I went in search of one of my dad's bottles. Not that they were that hard to find. He hid bottles all over the house. I knew where they all were. That was one of my hobbies, finding where my dad hid his bottles. It was my version of looking for Easter eggs. In my house, Easter lasted forever.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • House
  • Forever
  • Bottles

• My mirror image always had to be interpreted. And for that I sought my reflection in someone else's eyes.

  

  Alix Kates Shulman
  • Eyes
  • Image
  • Interpreted