Norah Vincent Quotes
They took people at face value. If you did your job or held up your end, and treated them with the passing respect they accorded you, you were all right.
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I'm in so many videos. There was a period of about two years where I danced for everyone: Kylie Minogue, Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Taio Cruz. It got to the point where my fees were double the other girls', and I wouldn't even have to audition. They'd call my agent directly and say, 'We want twigs to come in.'
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I view myself as a male artist.
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A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
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Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.
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I skipped kindergarten because I was reading at a pretty high level. That's a weird and cocky thing to say, but I was real sharp, and I knew that early on.
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A lot of the time, when people meet someone in a wheelchair, or with some disability, it's the first thing they notice, but they don't know how to react.
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I had a meal in Pizza Hut and the waitress told me I didn't need to pay. So I decided to be a bit cheeky and ask for more pizza and garlic bread.
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Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.
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'It makes me madder than a hornet to be disbelieved,' she explained.
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Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.
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We're such imperfect beings. I think that's more often the case than not.
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Lives are saved when those potential killers are confronted by a police officer, a strong police presence and actual, honest-to-goodness, up-close 'What are you guys doing on this corner at 1 o'clock in the morning' policing. We need to be careful it doesn't drift away from us in the age of viral videos, or there will be profound consequences.
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Critics are critics: their job is to find things wrong with people.
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Art imitates life. It's definitely helpful to feel that way. You feel that way when you're leading a show and you're on a set.
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In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
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It's been something that has always been kind of okay with me - not in the sense that I didn't want to get better, but I always knew that I could get better.
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Women fail, very simply, if they have no guidance and friendships in art, if they are not perceived as, or permitted to be, artists, and if they have no institutional access.
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I've got my Peabody and my Saturn awards right next to each other on my mantle, and that is about it, and that is all that matters.
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Different people have different opinions, and it's okay to respect all of them.
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They took people at face value. If you did your job or held up your end, and treated them with the passing respect they accorded you, you were all right.
