Barbara Crampton Quotes
We're evolving as a culture as well and as more equality gets supplanted in society, well, in the U.S. anyway, it's only helping women. We do have much more work to do though, in spreading awareness about where we fall short in our culture and in other cultures.
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I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.
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I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won't do it. Because if you accept less, you're just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.
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The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They are the real pioneers of Africa in many ways. They were born and raised in rural Africa during the colonial period. They are the ones who came to the U.S. long before I did.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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The principal did not like the fact that the teachers would take my side. I always left an impression when I left the school - not for who I was but for what I did there.
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I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.
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My dad taught me to kiteboard when I was 13, and around the same time, I happened to just fall into being an extra on a set and fell in love with acting and making movies.
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My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer.
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Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
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Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.
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I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
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the confluent smallpox - invented perhaps as the cruellest remedy for human vanity (II)
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How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.
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I wish the Peace Corps and its volunteers continued success and perseverance. We are grateful for their contributions to society and dedication to providing assistance where it is needed. May the Peace Corps continue its legacy of service, both at home and abroad.
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Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.
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I'll photograph weddings, friends - I'm not too good for anything.
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We're evolving as a culture as well and as more equality gets supplanted in society, well, in the U.S. anyway, it's only helping women. We do have much more work to do though, in spreading awareness about where we fall short in our culture and in other cultures.
