Alix Kates Shulman Quotes
Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.
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On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.
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Everyone's like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone's like, 'Hey, yeah!' and then you got a whole bunch of people making noise at you.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.
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Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
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I think the paradigm is shifting with regard to women and what we bring to the industry. I feel very blessed.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.
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I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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The Olympics was a goal, and definitely, swimming in college was a goal.
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I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.
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A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable vehicle to help launch them. And the agent is really necessary to represent all of the business interests of the author.
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I think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated.
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Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
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Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
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Global inequality is such an abstract concept, simply because there is no global government. Telling people in rich countries who have had no increase in real incomes, stagnant median wages and so on, that on the other hand global inequality is going down because people who are much poorer than them are getting richer - it's something that maybe they would like in an abstract sense, because everyone is happy there are fewer poor Chinese, but you may not be as happy if these Chinese are taking your job.
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When I received my first paycheck from my now known day job, I spent it on a period Craftsman chair and a Frank Lloyd Wright-wannabe lamp. With my second paycheck, I bought a stereo.
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A common argument from the mouths of capitalist spokespeople, in the ideological struggle against socialism, is that socialism, or the period of building socialism into which we have entered, is characterized by the abolition of the individual for the sake of the state.
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Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.
