Gail Dines Quotes

Pornography is to sex what McDonalds is to food. A plasticized, generic version of the real thing.

Gail Dines

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• I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken's wing.

  

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• I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

  

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• Many objects of our three-dimensional perceptual world are not only chiral but appear in nature in two versions, related at least ideally, as a chiral object and its mirror image.

  

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• I think that both pornography and the imposition (common in some areas of the world) of a dress code on women are problematic.

  

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• People somehow assume that the Internet is going to be the catalyst of change that will push young people into the streets, while in fact it may actually be the new opium for the masses which will keep the same people in their rooms downloading pornography.

  

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• I love the edited version of it.

  

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• Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand.

  

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• You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I've found what works. So I'm not wasting their time.

  

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• A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?

  

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• There are only two reasons for buying a book, after all. Either we intend to read it, in which case most of us find a printed version preferable, or we don't intend to read it, in which case a printed version is absolutely essential.

  

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• Who I am on stage is just an amped up version of who I am in real life.

  

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• My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book.

  

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• Bouillabaisse, this golden soup, this incomparable golden soup which embodies and concentrates all the aromas of our shores and which permeates, like an ecstasy, the stomachs of astonished gastronomes. Bouillabaisse is one of those classic dishes whose glory has encircled the world, and the miracle consists of this: there are as many bouillabaisses as there are good chefs or cordon bleus. Each brings to his own version his special touch.

  

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• I do like to write but I also like to get and out and play. I am losing track of all the Cooper versions that I do - I have one for Iceland, different one over here.

  

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• For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography.

  

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• I took a swing early and I let it go pretty good, and I felt fine, ... After that, I took my chances.

  

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• There's nothing like being on the field, taking on blocks, chasing after fast guys.

  

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• I am an emotional person, but I am not embarrassed by that.

  

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• It is a rare person who can pierce the veil between ordinarly life, consumed with matters of physical survival, and pursuit of the empowered path of purpose and meaning unless he or she is motivated by a crisis. Most often we require the failure of some system of power that we rely on before we take action.

  

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• People think you have this exciting and romantic life, because you project this exciting, romantic life on screen. But in reality you're just doing the same thing as everyone else - you know, sitting around watching TV with your gut hanging out, playing with your kid, or even sitting on the toilet. You know what's weird? Even I'm not that interested in my personal life any more.

  

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• Pornography is to sex what McDonalds is to food. A plasticized, generic version of the real thing.

  

  Gail Dines
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