Nina Gordon Quotes
A lot of guys get slammed pretty hard. I do think there's a tendency with women performers to just sort of write them off. The "Flavor of the Month" kind of thing. Or as a novelty, because I do think women in bands are still considered a novelty, or a little confection.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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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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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
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I think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated.
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I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.
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If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.
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There is no difference between fundamental research and applied research. Although this is my view, based on personal taste and the areas I have worked in, it is not necessarily true for others.
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In North Korea, grass is a vegetable eaten by the people, and they've got nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles. So, something more stringent than what's been done to North Korea is going to have to work; otherwise, a military strike is the only option.
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I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies. I really do.
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I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting history to young people in particular.
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Worry about going out there and making your own legacy.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know.
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Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
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I want to say to you Indiana people that I owe you a big, big debt of gratitude because nowhere in the world is a sporting group followed more than this state follows basketball. And I just want to thank you for the opportunity that I had to coach in this state - it will always be something that I will cherish.
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A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.
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I'd be happy if anyone wore my fragrance. They don't have to be famous.
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A lot of guys get slammed pretty hard. I do think there's a tendency with women performers to just sort of write them off. The "Flavor of the Month" kind of thing. Or as a novelty, because I do think women in bands are still considered a novelty, or a little confection.
