Nicole Brossard Quotes
... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm always investing. I'm constantly in talks with someone about some opportunity.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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What I have learned is that designers are willing to tell the world that they are here to empower women from all different backgrounds and different walks of life.
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Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
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If you have to tell a story without speaking, it's sort of like - I come from a dance background, so it's like a ballet where you have to tell a story with just your body. I think that's really interesting to have to tell a story with just your face and your mannerisms, and I'd like to tap into that world.
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I'm just worried that there's enough beer on the bus. That's the top priority at all times.
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Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?
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Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.
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Iraq was not involved in 9-11, Iraq was not a terrorist state. But now that we have decimated the country, the borders are open, freedom fighters from other countries are going in, and they the U.S. government have created more terrorism by going to an Islamic country...
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An island-farm - broad seas of corn Stirred by the wandering breath of morn - The happy spot where I was born.
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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Ninety-five percent of all brussels sprouts come from California.
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I share personal things about myself in the context of my interviews and in 'It's Messy' - but that's 20 percent of my life.
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I'm just a normal girl who really enjoys her job, and so you have to take the other things that come with being in the public eye.
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Others think their American ways will work in other countries. That's not always accurate and can be disrespectful to the local culture.
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I just want to be a good storyteller.
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I'm just about the best singer I know, and it's time for everybody to say that. I have total facility with my voice. And for some weird reason, critics don't talk about it.
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'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two words I've never liked. I think they imply some sort of decay. A settling.
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I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.
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There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.
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I wouldn't have been able to go to drama school when I was 19. I don't think I was even conscious of life... I was like a zombie. But when I finished uni' I just realised... just go and do it, stop being a knob.
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The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
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Some people get certainty by working harder and saying I'm going to master something. Some people get certainty by lowering their expectations, going 'it will never work. And they lose their dreams, but they get their needs. The needs are not like goals. They're not like belief systems that are built into you.
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... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.
