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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We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.
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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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I would have done higher than that... I would have set it higher.
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In all important respects, the man who has nothing but his physical power to sell has nothing to sell which it is worth anyone's money to buy
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There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps.
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I get really excited about other female acts. I feel inspired when I see another women succeeding in music because it makes me realize that if they can do it, I can do it.
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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.
