Wilma Mankiller Quotes
A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
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We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
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I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
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I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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I kind of hate over-explanation in comics.
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When I first came in the business, I had a couple of close calls on planes going to London for shows. There was one time where the plane had to fly around until a storm ended, and then we started having a question about fuel, so we had to go through the storm. It was the worst thing that ever happened in my life. That really messed me up.
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As a filmmaker, my approach is to come in not with preconceived notions, but with curiosity, and in that way, whether my subjects are James Carville or Anna Wintour or Dick Cheney, I am always surprised.
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A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail.
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I'm a home girl. I like to stay home.
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A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.
