Catharine MacKinnon (Catharine Alice MacKinnon) Quotes
People can find eroticism in relations with people whom they respect and whom they see as equals.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.
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Looking back on my 50-year eclectic journey in research, I am grateful that it has gone as well as it has, although still not clever enough to open the black box of enzyme structure.
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Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.
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Even during my injury, I had fun because I got to be a regular college kid.
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I'm helping people think the clarinet is cool.
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Growing up, I never felt like the pretty girl.
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To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description.
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Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
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People think I'm against critics because they are negative to my work. That's not what bothers me. What bothers me is they didn't see the work. I have seen critics print stuff about stuff I cut out of the film before we ran it. So don't tell me about critics.
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I have big dreams. I want to keep songwriting. Direct films. Be a parent.
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You can't read when you're traveling with other people; it always feels a bit rude.
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Yes, it's important to make things great, and you can certainly do this by upgrading over time, but good and profitable is better than perfect and never done.
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No one's forcing me or any other celebrity to take time out of their day to say 'Hi' to these fans or do these things. It's just something we do nine times out of 10 because we love and appreciate our fans.
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Lissa lowered her voice and added, "I might not even go to school anyway. I might defer and join the Peace Corps and go to Africa and shave my head and dig latrines." "Shave your head?" I said, because, really, this was the most ludicrous part of the whole thing. "You? Do you have any idea how ugly most people's bare heads are? They've got all kinds of bumps, Lissa. And you won't know until it's too late and you're flat-out bald.
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If there's a fire, I want to be there. Maybe because in being so close to death, I think I understand what it means to be truly alive.
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What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life.
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People can find eroticism in relations with people whom they respect and whom they see as equals.
