Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
The real work of feminism is to empower a woman and to give her language to express a new value system for the world. The new feminism must create both the process by which we generate influence and the influence itself.
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It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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The point of the future is that anything can happen.
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Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted.
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There's a side to you as an actor, a selfish side, that wants to go on and play different roles.
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This coupling together of science with international peace, is, I think, particularly significant.
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I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.
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I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right?
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Who doesn't love a 'Lifetime' movie? I think that they know their audience so well.
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I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I can still sing. If you are dead, you can't sing.
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I tell ya, I knew my morning wasn't going right. When I put on my shirt the button fell off, when I picked up my briefcase, the handle fell off, I tell ya, I was afraid to go to the bathroom.
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Gun violence is almost promoted onscreen in these huge blockbusters and then sex is still so shocking. But I also can understand that people find it uncomfortable, which I think is cool.
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The theatre world is so starved of funds, and that's unfortunately reflected in the pay.
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The real work of feminism is to empower a woman and to give her language to express a new value system for the world. The new feminism must create both the process by which we generate influence and the influence itself.
