Laura Carmichael Quotes
No one goes through life thinking that theyre the best friend of the lead character.
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.
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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
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The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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There's a real difference between venture capitalism and vulture capitalism. Venture capitalism we like. Vulture capitalism, no. And the fact of the matter is that he's going to have to face up to this at some time or another, and South Carolina is as good a place to draw that line in the sand as any.
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A robust democracy requires active participation.
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I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
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Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.
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No one goes through life thinking that theyre the best friend of the lead character.
