Alix Kates Shulman Quotes
My mirror image always had to be interpreted. And for that I sought my reflection in someone else's eyes.
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Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.
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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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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.
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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.
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I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.
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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.
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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.
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
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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.
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'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.
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Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.
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I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
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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.
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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.
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I'm okay in my skin, you know... I'm okay with who I am.
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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?
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A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It's what I would naturally be doing anyway.
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The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
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Really connecting with someone and maybe opening their mind a little bit, is such a cool thing to be able to do through music.
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If we believe in them, love them and trust them, they see who they are through our eyes.
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My mirror image always had to be interpreted. And for that I sought my reflection in someone else's eyes.
