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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Writing is one of those jobs that everyone has an opinion on. I don't think this is a bad thing.
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I own works by women artists; it is hard for me to see, literally to see, how women and men differ in the quality of their work. Why are women artists less known and less admired?
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You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
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Taking my bike out and riding the bike path along Lake Shore Drive, that's one of the great experiences in my life. And I hope to do it as long as I can.
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When I was a child, my society lifted me up - though education primarily, as well as through other kinds of cultural stimulation. It wasn't just my parents or my religious community. The entire society lifted me up to the bottom rung of the ladder. Then they said, "Girl, it's up to you whether or not you climb." I don't have a problem with that. I think that is the best way to go about living.
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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.
