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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We want to make sure that women have a way to use all their gifts in society, to get educated, to be all they can be in the workforce, to really develop as people in all the ways that they can. We want this for men too! And we want this for children. Well this can't happen if this can be sandbagged by an ill-timed and unwanted pregnancy.
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The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.
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A man of the right doesn't write in the same way as a man of the left, you can see that right away, or a woman of the right or a woman of the left.
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I feel like if you really know the ending right from the beginning, you can add so many subtleties and little things later that will pay off and be more consistent and more rewarding for the reader.
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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.
