Gemma Cairney Quotes
We are still focussing too much on gender. If we all just gave ourselves a break, knowing that we could all be everything, we'd feel relieved and more equal.
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Also, an area that interests me – and it will probably take years to state what I mean – is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.
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First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.
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People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
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The market for local advertising is in the billions.
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I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.
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I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.
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Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.
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What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that's a very small aspect of my life.
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I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.
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Now, I love playing moms who can't hide their paranoia.
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We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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Calling Michelle 'Obama Barack's baby mama?' Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren't the only targets. Fox's pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people.
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The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
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What I loved about 'Goodfellas' is that it's a film about bad behavior - but told with great energy and without judgment - but it doesn't actually shy away from the consequences of that behavior in the characters' lives, which I think is similar in 'Keep the Lights On.'
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What our fans want, what our fans believe, what our fans are interested in is why we are what we are. But, nevertheless, ultimately we have to do the things that we believe are essential for the long-term health of the game, of the league, and of all of our franchises.
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Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.
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... that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a 'one' who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation which gender it will be today.
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I write everything. I have that control issue with my music. That's why I'm not in a band.
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When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.
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We are still focussing too much on gender. If we all just gave ourselves a break, knowing that we could all be everything, we'd feel relieved and more equal.
