Alix Kates Shulman Quotes
Being alone for a woman is probably much more scary than for a man. I'm all for getting over our fears by facing them head-on.
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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
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After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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I love sweets. Like, every week of my life, I've had a cheat day.
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Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
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I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
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I love being called NTR's grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didn't try enough or maybe because I like it this way.
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.
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I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.
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Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage equality. It's because people understand the word does have meaning. And equality comes when we accept the same notions and the same institutions for everyone, regardless of race and gender and regardless of sex orientation.
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On the issue of behavioral health and the like, the program we have in place has always been available to former players as well.
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I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more empathetic, more generous people on the page than they are in person.
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The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.
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You hear different things from different people, and they're all valid: they're all valuable. I think that's what comprises a performance is all those ideas.
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The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of violently angry tensions, of desperate and overwhelming longings.
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I'm actually surprised how technical a lot of commercial wine production is. Things are done very much from an industrial chemistry point of view at certain price points, but that's not the impression you get with wine.
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The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the cries of the wounded, the senseless killing, war profiteering, and chest-pounding grief.
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There are times, perhaps once every thirty years, when there is a sea-change in politics. It then does not matter what you say or what you do. There is a shift in what the public wants and what it approves of. I suspect there is now such a sea-change and it is for Mrs. Thatcher.
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Being alone for a woman is probably much more scary than for a man. I'm all for getting over our fears by facing them head-on.
