Arlene Blum Quotes
Women often focus more on staying friends, which is as important as climbing the mountain.
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I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.
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Most of my friends in Nashville - almost all of them - seem to have had hits in the '70s, either as artists or songwriters or producers.
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We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.
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There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. If she is confirmed, Solicitor General Kagan will bring the Supreme Court to an historical high-water mark, with three women concurrently serving as Justices.
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I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
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When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.
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I spend a lot of time talking to women interested in office about how they can make it work.
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When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.
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The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.
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When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I'm going to make a difference and lead by example and actively put in place policies and practices to support women.'
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Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed.
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Your results are very quantifiable. And nobody can take those results away from you. They are yours... All of that, I think, is very good for women.
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When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women.
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It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.
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I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.
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The great thing about Cairo is the vast majority of women wear some kind of head scarf, but they are also very fashion-conscious. They love bright colors.
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Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
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I'm very much a creative person, but you've got to do the follow-through. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take over the world, but really the people who do take over the world have a good plan of how to get there and the steps along the way.
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I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.
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We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.
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We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.
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Women often focus more on staying friends, which is as important as climbing the mountain.
