Esther Vilar Quotes
But in our time women are no longer subject to the will of men. Quite the contrary. They have been given every opportunity to win their independence and if, after all this time, they still have not liberated themselves and thrown off their shackles, we can only arrive at one conclusion: there are no shackles to throw off.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.
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I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.
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All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
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Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.
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You can't hit what you can't see.
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I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.
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Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.
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I believe that women should be treated just like men.
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Love food and I love to eat.
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You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.
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All our symbols have the same purpose; words are merely the symbols we use most commonly. The function of words in human thought is to stand for things which are not present to the senses, and allow the mind to manipulate them-things, concepts, ideas, everything that does not have a physical reality in front of us now.
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You think people was meaner then than they are now? the deputy said. The old man was looking out at the flooded town. No, he said, I don't. I think people are the same from the day God first made one. (p.158)
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Bring ice, thanks, Agnes
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I just don't let music genres define me.
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Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.
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'That makes no sense,' I said.'This is the Victorian era,' she said. 'Women didn’t have to make sense.'
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But in our time women are no longer subject to the will of men. Quite the contrary. They have been given every opportunity to win their independence and if, after all this time, they still have not liberated themselves and thrown off their shackles, we can only arrive at one conclusion: there are no shackles to throw off.
