Rebecca Solnit Quotes
Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story ... The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.
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I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.
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We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.
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Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
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When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' somebody, you couldn't just be friends with somebody.
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Of course, the humans in Haiti have hope. They hope to leave.
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Some terror in the swishing tall grass seemed added to that of the diabolically pounding sea, and I started up crying aloud and disjointedly, 'Tiger? Tiger? Is it Tiger? Beast? Beast? Is it a Beast that I am afraid of?'
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Every time you smile, I smile And every time you shine, I'll shine for you.
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Only the heelOf splendid steelShall stand secure on sliding fate,When golden navies weep their freight.
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To the patient, any operation is momentous.
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I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.
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I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.
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I needed to feed my family. I read a couple of the episodes. How can you keep on doing the same thing?
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It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.
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We're doing things discipline-wise, and everything else like we always have. That doesn't mean it's right or good, and it's fair to criticize me because some teams accept it better than others and listen or are disciplined better than others.
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I would love to have a go at a band or some form of music one day.
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It's weird because people think the biggest guys are the biggest eaters, but fat doesn't expand as much as muscle, so you want someone with a big frame who can expand.
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Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story ... The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.
