Andi Zeisler Quotes
The nineties as a pop cultural sphere was a really fertile time for feminism that was grounded and located in popular culture. I'm talking about before the Spice Girls - Sassy Magazine, riot grrrl, the Beastie Boys, Nirvana. You had this alternative culture that was very much speaking up on behalf of women and in favor of women.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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A movie set actually can be a good place to have a family atmosphere.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.
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You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.
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Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side.
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In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.
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Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
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The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.
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People always make war when they say they love peace.
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Never paint except with the three primary colors red, blue, and yellow and their derivatives.
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Ah, Los Angeles. One disaster after another, always has been.
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You ask 'What is life?' That is the same as asking 'What is a carrot?' A carrot is a carrot and we know nothing more.
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I love challenges.
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In a fit at the bookstore one day, I bought all my favourite composers' biographies: Schubert, Massenet, Wolf. I've still not had a chance to read them; it breaks my heart. But when you travel so much, you just can't take that many books with you.
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I love Comme des Garcons. I think everything she touches is almost like gold. And she does it so quietly. No branding.
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I think when you wear the brand anyway, why not go out and try to promote it and make it as cool as you can? The fact that I can continue to do what I've always done and kind of become the face of that brand is to me, kind of just makes sense. It doesn't make sense not to do it I guess.
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We are helping women express themselves and feel awesome about themselves, and I think that does change the course of your day.
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I'm happy with what happened out there. It's always good to finally get out there and seeing what it's like actually being in front of everyone and actually running Weis' offense the first time when it actually means something.
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The nineties as a pop cultural sphere was a really fertile time for feminism that was grounded and located in popular culture. I'm talking about before the Spice Girls - Sassy Magazine, riot grrrl, the Beastie Boys, Nirvana. You had this alternative culture that was very much speaking up on behalf of women and in favor of women.
