Catharine MacKinnon (Catharine Alice MacKinnon) Quotes
Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.
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One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.
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I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble.
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I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
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Oh God, I'm going to get in trouble for saying this, but I grew up falling asleep in church because I was tired from watching horror movies late at night.
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I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before.
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I like challenging parts, something I haven't done yet, something that scares me. There's just a feeling I get when I read a script that I love, I feel an attachment to it, a yearning to play that character.
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I haven't even graduated from high school yet - and I've realised in the last four years, with all the travelling I've done and all of the movies I've made, that the world is my classroom. I've experienced things I don't know you can necessarily get from reading a history book.
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A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.
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But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the middle with number Three, but I didn't realize he would move in with quite such a bang.
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I strongly believe that good books are the best home accessory.
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There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.
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I will never give up my dream of being a prima ballerina and backup dancer for Justin Timberlake!
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I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.
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I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do.
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I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.
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And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.
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And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.
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The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
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It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only one subject is next tiresome to the man who knows no subject. Therefore, in the course of my life I have taught myself whatever I could, and although I am not an educated man, I am able, I am thankful to say, to have an intelligent interest in most things.
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There's something about political comedy that sometimes closes people off, and my general goal is to open people right up.
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Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.
