Wednesday Martin (Wendy Martin) Quotes
I think the most relative thing is that women in a way that I think people haven't given us credit for, want to return to this idea about equality in marriages and financial autonomy. And if the richest women don't have financial autonomy, what does it mean for the rest of us? That's all.
Quotes to Explore
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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I am a just man.
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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It's the federal government's job to secure the border.
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I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.
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Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.
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I want to have a normal high-school experience.
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Even in a bad market, location, location, location is a way to still buy and sell property.
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When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
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When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.
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The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.
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You can have all the information you want in the world. If you don't have the people raising questions and looking beneath the surface, and people being paid to do this, you're not going to find the answers.
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I've been a prima-dona. I was taken care of since I was 13. That's why I am the way I am today. I was spoiled, like a brat. I had anything I wanted. That's crazy to be that way all your life. Everybody's taking care of you, but manipulating you at the same time. Very few people have a life like that. Most people have to work like slaves their whole lives. I've never had a job in my life. What I know how to do is hurt big, tough men - in the street and off.
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First, the constitution [of Ukraine] has to be reformed. Only then can confidence building and border security follow.
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Tony Blair was a good politician but not a good Prime Minister, and that's what we don't want to be. We don't want to be just people who are good at winning elections: we want to be good at governing. I think we benefit from having seen the mistakes that we think Tony Blair made in 1997.
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I think the most relative thing is that women in a way that I think people haven't given us credit for, want to return to this idea about equality in marriages and financial autonomy. And if the richest women don't have financial autonomy, what does it mean for the rest of us? That's all.
