Harriet Martineau Quotes
The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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If I've got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it's that there are no minor characters.
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Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.
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If I could be anyone, it would be Brad Pitt.
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I particular enjoy the crime writer, Walter Ellis Mosley. He does a series of Chandler-esque detective stories.
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My experience is that when one is in psychosis, you're on a mission and nothing is going to stop you. At some level your brain is telling you you probably shouldn't be doing this, but you're on a mission.
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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
